LIBrides.com Web News Archive

'Running of the Brides' Comes to Area on October 20th (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Philadelphia and South Jersey area brides-to-be will have an exciting new option for finding the perfect wedding gown. The famous Bridal Gown Sale will be held at the new Filene's Basement at Marple Crossroads Shopping Center in Springfield on Friday, October 20.

Brides-to-be pick up tips (prestontoday.net) - Blushing brides-to-be packed the Evening Post's wedding fair for advice on making their big day extra special. (27/09/2006 15:09:28)

David's Bridal to Offer Additional 20% Discount to Brides Affected by BrideSave.com Closing (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - To help brides impacted by the sudden closing of BrideSave.com -- one of the major online bridal discounters that had been frequently recommended by consumer advocate groups -- David's Bridal is offering BrideSave.com customers a 20% discount, in addition to current sale prices, on all off the rack dresses* found at David's Bridal locations nationwide.

Brides And Grooms Betting On 'Lucky 7' Weddings (CBS 2 Chicago) - Most engaged couples consider themselves "lucky in love.” And now the rush is on for brides and grooms to lock in some "luck" for their wedding day.

Memoirs focus on former nuns and frantic brides (Inside Bay Area) - MEMOIRS ARE intensely personal — that's what makes them so fascinating. Readers place themselves in writers' shoes and say, "That could be me.

Win the Wedding of Your Dreams (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch) - (ARA) - Here's a scary number for brides-to-be: the average wedding costs $27,490, according to The Wedding Report. And that's just for the basics: invitations, flowers, food, the all-important dress and the ceremony.

Big Novel Gets Slimmer in Paperback (New York Times) - ?Hunger?s Brides,? by Paul Anderson has been whittled down to 768 pages from the original 1,360 pages.

S. Koreans Search Far and Wide for a Wife (YaleGlobal Online) - Tens of thousands of South Korean men look to China, Vietnam and beyond for wives, in response to a shortage of brides caused by a generation of gender-selective births.

Stepping in (WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg) - A major online bridal discounter shuts down and a popular bridal store is helping out the affected brides.

Virtual weddings (BBC News) - Zimbabwe's traditional weddings are now increasingly being held in the absence of brides and grooms who live overseas.