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Brides (Sydney Morning Herald) - There's a shot early on in Brides that will make strong Greek Australians cry, and plenty of non-Greeks too. Anyone who came here on a boat - and that's a lot of people - could identify.

Brides Claim No-Show D.J. Ruined Their Special Day (WAVY 10) - A wedding is supposed to be one of the happiest days for any couple. But what if there's no music, and no one to announce the bride and groom? It happened to two brides who say the disc jockey they hired didn't show, ditching them instead and ruining their special day.

St Brides nuns on the move (Wairarapa Times-Age) - MORE than 100 years after the first six nuns moved into the St Brides convent on Masterton's Queen Street, the order's six remaining nuns are moving on again.

'War Brides' Musical Gets NYC Reading (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - BMI , in conjunction with Musical Mondays Theatre Lab and the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will host a reading of the award-winning musical War Brides 2:30 PM Sept. 27 at BMI's New York office at 320 West 57th Street.

SPECIAL SECTIONS ONLINE (Perry County News) - The Perry County News regularly includes special sections in its print edition, and those special sections are posted here, as well. Just look on the left side of this page for the list, which includes sections on seniors, brides, home improvement, Little League players and other topics.

Foreign-language Oscar noms underway (Cinematical) - The deadline for countries to submit their picks for the foreign-language Academy Award is October 3, and the selections are rolling in. The latest is from Hong Kong: Perhaps Love , a splashy Chinese-language musical. The film was selected over other promising Hong Kong features such as The Myth (which stars Jackie Chan ) and Everlasting Regret . Palestine has selected Paradise Now

HEN PARTY BRIDES WILD FOR ACTION (Daily Mirror) - BRIDES-to-be are ditching girlie hen nights for daredevil pursuits such as quadbiking and abseiling. Sales of lads-style breaks among hen parties are four times up on last year.

Sheep, two-day parties enliven remote Falkland isles (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - First-time passengers think it must be a mistake as the 10-seater plane banks toward an undulating grass field maintained by munching sheep and littered by goose droppings.

KZN to woo couples at British bridal fair (Independent Online) - British brides - their husbands and their wedding guests - are spending millions on weddings in KwaZulu-Natal. And now, supported by Tourism KZN and the department of arts, culture and tourism, the company is planning to woo even more couples by exhibiting at Britain's biggest bridal fair.

Brides look to the rainbow to inspire their big day (Northwest Herald) - It started out as a curiosity embraced only by celebrities and the ultrafashionable. Now, colorful wedding gowns have permeated the market. Color, it turns out, is the biggest thing to hit bridal fashion in decades.