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Brides ditching traditions to go for shades of yellow, unique styles (Lansing State Journal) - It's closing in on high season for summer and fall weddings, which means brides, grooms and a few mothers are brainstorming and executing key details now for 2008 nuptials. They tend to be one of the most traditional American ceremonies, right down to a face full of cake and the garter toss. But today's events (there will be about 2.5 million in the U.S. this year) are, more than ever, becoming ...

Not all Yemenite brides need to look the same (Haaretz Daily) - In 1949, tens of thousands of Jews from all over Yemen gathered in the southern city of Aden and waited there two months for planes that would take them to Israel as part of Operation Magic Carpet.

Wanted: water to get brides (The Telegraph) - Sayla (Gujarat), March 23: The magnificent sandstone arch at its entrance cannot hide Sayla’s misery. The Kathiawad village’s men just cannot get married.

The Running of the Brides (WXIA-TV Atlanta) - Thousands of brides-to-be raced Friday morning to grab a hold of deeply discounted wedding dresses at Filene's Basement in Buckhead. Watch the Running of the Brides

Mail-order brides - who are men (Daily Telegraph) - ONE remote city and so many beautiful women, all desiring nothing more than to fire the passion of British men. Sound too good to be true? It is.

For brides, a walk in the park (The Sun Chronicle) - ATTLEBORO - Almost a dozen brides have left a church in the lurch and plan to head down the aisle at the Hagopian Memorial Walk in Capron Park this year.

Blackburn winner goes off-Broadway (AP via Yahoo! News) - Judith Thompson, who won the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for playwrighting, will have a New York production in June of her winning entry, "Palace of the End."

Feuding Between Vegas Chapels Turned Violence (FOX 6 News Milwaukee) - Couples hoping to walk down the aisle in Las Vegas have plenty of wedding chapels to choose from. Apparently, there aren't enough brides and grooms to go around. The competition among chapels is so fierce, the feuding has even turned violent. City hall now says it has had enough. FOX 's Casey Stegall has more.

Fire at mansion's wedding chapel is believed arson (San Antonio Express-News/KENS 5) - Area has seen several recent fires

Closing Of Rockwall's 'The Wedding Cottage' Leaves Brides In Lurch (NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth) - Brides in Rockwall scramble to make new wedding arrangements after a local wedding chapel apparently shuts its doors without notice.