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LYNN CODDINGTON: ROMANCING THE TOME: Brides walk out of Regency period, into your heart (Contra Costa Times) - JUNE IS THE TRADITIONAL month for weddings, and the marriage plot remains an enduring favorite in romance. Regency historicals rely heavily on the importance of marriage as a social and economic necessity, contrasted with the challenges of finding love within such a pragmatic institution. It seems appropriate to review a pair of the best from among the current releases.

Change in Visa Paperwork Stalls 10,000 Trips to the Altar (New York Times) - The form change was required as part of a law intended to protect foreign mail-order brides from abusive American spouses.

Brides gone wild: Sultry wedding photos in vogue (Bonita Daily News) - It's wedding season, and around the country couples are posing for photographs that will be gathered into albums and handed down through the generations. There's the groom, beaming in his tuxedo. The father, flush with pride.

READERS' CHOICE (Home News Tribune) - Investigate your vendors — "Before you purchase from any online vendor, call past brides to inquire about quality, timing, customer service and whether or not all of their online promises were properly met . . .

Couples must consider guests' finances if planning destination wedding (The Columbus Dispatch) - These days, it costs as much to have a wedding on average as it does to buy a new car. The Conde Nast Bridal Group, which publishes Brides, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride magazines, says the average amount spent on weddings has increased to $27,852, up from the average $15,208 wedding in 1990.

Newlyweds need paperwork, decisions (The News & Observer) - Like many soon-to-be brides, I'm spending most of my free time picking out flowers, interviewing photographers, preparing invitations and the like. I'm also figuring out the tax consequences of jumping the broom.

South Florida brides-to-be plan for possiblity of hurricanes (Sun-Sentinel) - Something old, something new, something borrowed and something … blew?

Here comes the bill (Detroit News) - Brides and grooms promise to take each other for richer, or for poorer.

The Urban Etiquette Handbook (New York Magazine) - New rules for getting along in an endlessly wired, ruthlessly crowded, sexually libertarian city.

Prioritizing allows storybook wedding on budget (Billings Gazette) - Despite childhood dreams of storybook weddings, there comes a time when even the most idealistic of brides must wrestle with the reality of wedding costs. Keeping those costs from soaring as out of control as a bride's tossed bouquet often means setti ...