LIBrides.com Web News Archive

You are cordially invited ... to take advantage of low prices on slightly used wedding gowns (Dayton Daily News) - Brides-to-be: Prepare your charge cards. There may be a wedding dress with your name on it at an unlikely place.

'Nightmare' Wedding Dresses (ABC News) - Brides-to-be test the honesty of their friends and family while dress shopping.

Wedded To An Idea (The Tampa Tribune) - For most New Tampa brides, the shopping expedition to South Tampa or Busch Boulevard had become a rite of passage.

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 ...

Filene's Basement Holds Famous 'Running of the Brides' sale in Paramus March 28 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - It's shopping as a full-contact sport.

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.

Cambodia: After Vietnam Cracks Down On Marriage Brokers, South Koreans Turn To Cambodia To Buy Wives (Sin Chew Jit Poh) - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: The brides-to-be are brought down from poor Cambodian villages and herded into city hotels, where they are lined up and put on display for prospective grooms flown in from South Korea.

After Vietnam cracks down on marriage brokers, South Koreans turn to Cambodia to buy wives (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News) - The brides-to-be are brought down from poor Cambodian villages and herded into city hotels, where they are lined up and put on display for prospective grooms flown in from South Korea.

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.

Bock's Drunken City Makes NYC Premiere at Playwrights Horizons (Playbill) - Playwrights Horizons opens the New York City premiere of The Drunken City, Adam Bock's tipsy comedy about marriageable men and women, March 26 following previews from March 13.