LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Lifting the Veil: 'What's on Brides' Minds'? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Weddings, by definition, are steeped in tradition. But a just-released survey found that today's brides are standing tradition on its head:

Brides in Uganda to wear Vermont wedding gowns (The Burlington Free Press) - Seventy-nine Ugandan brides will don wedding gowns from Vermont when they marry en masse in July. The never-worn wedding gowns are left over from a charity fund-raising event.

COOKBOOK NOOK: Publishers cater recipe books to new brides (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Once the honeymoon is over, many brides will find themselves in the kitchen, scraping up a meal. Having a good cookbook or two handy could be of some help.

Be your own boss Self-employment can be a profitable endeavor (This Ithaca Journal) - WASHINGTON — Joe Pregiato gave up selling bonds on Wall Street in favor of snapping pictures of blushing brides.

Here Comes the Bride (but Not From Afar, Emirates Hope) (New York Times) - In this nation of five million, of whom only about 10 percent are native citizens, the battle for cultural survival begins with "I do."

Be your own boss (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Joe Pregiato gave up selling bonds on Wall Street in favor of snapping pictures of blushing brides. In doing so, Pregiato made the leap from working for someone else to being his own boss - joining the ranks of the millions of self-employed Americans who decide to hang out their own shingle for any number of reasons.

Movie Guide and Film Series (New York Times) - Movies.

Eco-conscious brides dream of green wedding (icWales) - The latest fashion in weddings planning no longer concerns the dress or invitations, but the environmental cost of the big day.

Child Marriage Still An Issue In India (CBS News) - It's been against the law since 1929, but at least a third of all brides in India are under the age of 18, and some are a lot younger. The practice is especially common among poor families seeking to avoid the high dowries of older brides.

Where lack of water means lack of brides (Hindustan Times) - Thirty seven-year-old Kamajibhai Jhala desperately looks for a bride and is even ready to wed a tribal or a widow as severe water shortage has triggered a social problem in this village-acute shortage of brides.