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Brides Demand Destination-Friendly Jewelry (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - The destination wedding -- for many modern brides, this nontraditional approach to saying "I do" makes a statement about what's deeply personal and important on their big day. Many of the extravagant details expected with more formal, traditional weddings go by the wayside out of pure choice, financial limitations or simple convenience.

Air, Water Powerful Partners in Northwest (Washington Post) - PASCO, Wash. -- Like mail-order brides, thousands of long-limbed wind turbines are coming to the empty outback of Washington and Oregon, where they are being married off, via the electrical grid, to hulking old hydroelectric dams.

Tips for Making Your Skin Radiant on Your Wedding Day (Derby Daily Reporter) - (ARA) - Every bride wants her wedding to be picture perfect - from the dress to the flowers to the food at the reception. And of course, brides want to be beautiful, both for the ceremony and for the wedding pictures.

Tarantino invites film fans into his 'Grindhouse' (Chicago Tribune) - Some kids love Disneyland, but for little Quentin Tarantino, the happiest place on Earth was always a scabby Los Angeles movie theater. That's where he could sit in the dark with bloodied samurais, dangerous pimps and zombie brides. His search for the next matinee took him to every freeway and to distant neighborhoods, which is why Tarantino now knows the city like the back of an amputated hand.

Leftover Brides (antiMUSIC) - (Blabbermouth) A previously unreleased BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION song featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has been made available for streaming via the band's MySpace page.

Region report: Mankato brides getting plenty of practice at wedding planning (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - MANKATO - By now, Heather Rock is getting pretty good at this wedding planning stuff. Rock had made all the arrangements for a July 7 wedding to her fiancé, Adam Marti. But Sgt. Marti's extended deployment as a member of the Minnesota National Guard has put those plans asunder. Rock is hoping Marti will be back by August, but they've pushed their wedding to Oct. 13 to be sure. "It's frustrating," ...

Preserving your special day (Petoskey News-Register) - “I don't even remember you taking that picture!” It's a common refrain from brides and grooms to their photographer, after the blur of the wedding day passes and they piece together the event through pictures.

U.S.P.S. puts its stamp on wedded bliss (UPI) - While the U.S. Postal Service is raising rates for most services, spring brides will get a price break when they go to mail their wedding invitations.

Lucia: The inside story (New Orleans Times-Picayune) - Maybe they should've taken the knife away after cutting the wedding cake. Most brides-to-be face moments of pre-wedding jitters on their way to the altar.

Where the Wrong Gift Can Mean Love?s Labor?s Lost (New York Times) - A celebrity divorce shows that as South Korea?s wealth grows, choosing the right wedding gifts for the new in-laws is becoming fraught with pitfalls.