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Buchan brides (Buchan Observer) - HERE are the latest brides who are hoping to be crowned the June winner in the Buchan Observer's Bride of the Year competition. Each monthly winner will receive an exquisite box of chocolates courtesy of our very generous sponsors Something Special at Thorntons. Voting will be held next week.

High fashion weddings are in vogue (Las Vegas Business Press) - June is busting out all over -- with beautiful brides in floor-length gowns and grooms in elegant tuxedos. This year's bridal buzz combines weddings in picturesque floral gardens, rolling-green lawns and the serenity of romantic, flower-filled courtyards.

NRI Frauds: Why Is No One Complaining? (The Times of India) - CHANDIGARH: That scores of starry-eyed brides fall to the charms of NRI grooms is a story oft-told. The landscape here is littered with tales of broken hearts and shattered dreams.

Wedding plans made easier online (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - A desire to market her business to brides across Georgia led Mary-Julia Stephens to launch a one-stop wedding resource. The Tyrone resident, known locally as the owner of a chocolate fountain business, said she started an online service to help both brides and vendors outside the Atlanta area have access to one another. "I wanted to find a way that vendors from across the state could advertise,"

A Month of Love - or Murder (The New York Sun) - June. Moon. Spoon. Swoon. June brides. It's such a romantic month that, unless you're one of the few fortunate enough to be madly in love (as I am), it can make you want to gag. Or go into a murderous rage. Perhaps that is why some of the most outstanding mystery writers in history turned their creative powers to the annihilation of their fellow human beings. The great Charles McCarry, often

Premarital education could cut divorce rate, survey finds (USA Today) - More couples are getting premarital education, perhaps thinking it may give their new marriages divorce protection. And new research shows it may be working since it's associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction and lower levels of destructive conflicts.

Fabulous prizes for Bride of the Year (Bay Post-Moruya) - BRIDES, don't hide behind your veil, try your luck in the annual Bay Post and Coachhouse Marina Resort's Bride of the Year competition. The 2005/06 competition still seeks entries and is open until Friday, July 21.

Finding an affordable room is a challenge, but not impossible (USA Today) - Pricey but worth it The Park Hyatt Tokyo, adjacent to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, southwest of Shinjuku Station, is the kind of hotel that gives bragging rights to the international business travelers who know enough to stay here. Not only is it the tallest hotel in Tokyo but it offers the highest standards and most sophisticated design of any hotel in town. In the middle atrium is

Paris museum pays tribute to tribal arts (AP via Yahoo! News) - A new museum, located in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, celebrates art forms sometimes overlooked by the Paris cultural establishment: carved African masks, feather headdresses from the Amazon, dangling silver earrings for Middle Eastern brides.

Being a bridesmaid never looked so good (Poughkeepsie Journal) - Over the years, brides-to-be have promised their bridesmaids dresses that they'll love, that they'll wear over and over again. But on what occasion is it really appropriate to trot out pink taffeta and a train?