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New exhibit at the Royal BC Museum honours war brides (Gabriola Sounder) - VICTORIA, BC - During the 1940s, thousands of war brides from foreign countries left everything and everyone they’d ever known and travelled overseas to join their servicemen husbands. This spring and summer, the Royal BC Museum presents an exhibition honouring these women’s stories.

Marital loophole creates child brides (Vietnam Net) - VietNamNet Bridge - In most circumstances, if two boys started pulling and pushing a girl who was trying to escape, passers by would call the police. But this isn’t the case in Vang Ma Chai Commune, a remote area of Phong Tho District in northwest Lai Chau Province.

California Husband Takes Wife's Last Name (WLBZ Bangor) - SANTA MONICA, CA (NEWS CENTER) -- New brides have done it for centuries and now, after nearly three years of legal wrangling, a California man has officially taken his wife's last name.

Brides-to-be want payback (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul) - Earlier this week Lori's Bridal closed its doors--failing to deliver hundreds of dresses, now brides without dresses are looking for payback.

Need a quick fix? Try boot camp (The Globe and Mail) - Aimed at brides-to-be, new moms and others, military-style workouts are one of the leading fitness trends for this year, experts say

The inside story on the sham wedding fixer (Sunday Life) - Brides-for-sale scammer Success ends in failure! Sunday Life can reveal that members of the Real IRA hatched the plan to murder Alexander Success after it emerged that he had approached the daughter of a top dissident to participate in a sham marriage.

Husband Takes Wife's Last Name (KTLA-TV Los Angeles) - Santa Monica -- New brides have done it for centuries and now, after two years of legal wrangling, a California man has officially taken his wife's last name.

Crackdown at the Canadian border urged (The Globe and Mail) - Raid on Texas compound of fundamentalist group sparks calls for Canada to police the movement of 'celestial brides'

Fast Facts (Arizona Daily Wildcat) - Issue date: 5/6/08 Section: Extra! • In Greek culture, brides carry a lump of sugar in their wedding glove. It's supposed to bring sweetness to their married life.

I do, ma'am! (Albany Times Union) - Boot camp class gets brides toned in time for big day They might be grunting, red-faced and sweaty now, but these women will look beautiful in their wedding gowns.Bridal Boot Camp, a six-week program at the Best Fitness gym in Schenectady, helps brides get in shape for their weddings. Every year, Karli Goering, head personal trainer at the gym, says she is besieged by requests from ...