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Saudi Suitors Swarm Yemeni Cities in Search of Brides (Arab News) - JEDDAH, 8 May 2006 — Yemen has become a favorite source of brides for Saudis, particularly those from the south, according to the Kingdom’s Embassy in Sanaa.

War brides brave unknown for new life with soldier husbands (Prince Albert Daily Herald) - Picture it. Surrounded by nearly 900 brides, a young British woman steps on board a ship to set sail for Canada where her soldier husband awaits her arrival. The trip takes nearly one month. The young woman is almost seven months pregnant with her first child.

SETTING THE DATES (Daily Record) - Bachelors have welcomed a "caravan of love" with 100 women looking for romance. The mayor of Villafrechos, Spain, organised the fiesta to help get "brides and babies to save the village".

GE adds excitement to weddings of Polling Day brides (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News) - Weddings take months of intricate planning: choosing the cake, the gown and of course the perfect day.

GE adds excitement to weddings of Polling Day brides (Channel NewsAsia) - Weddings take months of intricate planning: choosing the cake, the gown and of course the perfect day. So when, with just days to go, the Government decides to call a general election on your wedding day, what do you do?

Kan. Lawmakers Set Minimum Marriage Age (AP via Yahoo! News) - Kansas may have seen the last of its child brides. After a pregnant 14-year-old from Nebraska drove to Kansas last year to marry her 22-year-old boyfriend, now serving time for having sex with the minor, Kansas lawmakers decided it was time the set a minimum marriage age.

Kindergartners surprise teacher with a ‘wedding’ (The Sentinel) - Like most traditional brides, Connie Gilmore wore white. But she also donned a bright tunic and orange flip-flops. That’s because Gilmore didn’t know when she walked outside W.G. Rice Elementary School Thursday afternoon that she was about to become a blushing bride in a mock-wedding ceremony.

Lisa Live: On a 'Mission' for Truth (Fox News) - Rumors about Tom and Katie and the "Buff Brides" workout are just rumors.

Kan. Lawmakers Set Minimum Marriage Age (AP via Yahoo! News) - Kansas may have seen the last of its child brides.

Kansas establishes minimum marriage age (USA Today) - The Kansas House voted 119-0 to approve a bill that would prohibit anyone under the age of 15 from marrying in Kansas and would set strict limits for would-be brides or grooms under the age of 18. The Senate approved it a day earlier, 36-4. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius requested the legislation.