LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Pak brides await citizenship (NDTV) - There are more than a dozen Pakistani brides living in Qadian near Amritsar. Most of them have been staying in India for more than a decade but are not allowed to go out of the village even in times of medical emergency.

Brides-to-Be, Get Ready to Run (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - It's shopping as a full- contact sport. And the women who take part in the "Running of the Brides" at Filene's Basement wouldn't have it any other way.

Afghans arrange marriages for toddler brides (MSNBC) - Despite the efforts of the government and rights groups, the engagement and marriage of children still persists in Afghanistan, especially among poor, uneducated families or in the countryside.

Tips for Making Your Skin Radiant on Your Wedding Day (Benton Evening News) - (ARA) - Every bride wants her wedding to be picture perfect - from the dress to the flowers to the food at the reception. And of course, brides want to be beautiful, both for the ceremony and for the wedding pictures.

Parking tickets for brides-to-be (BBC News) - A parking chief defends issuing tickets to buses parked in bus stops and to two brides-to-be.

Taiwan Quick Take (Taipei Times) - ¦ SOCIETY Lu officiates weddings Vice President Annette Lu (???) officiated at a mass wedding ceremony of 32 couples at the Hsinchu Science Park yesterday.

Indian grooms sign 'no dowry' clause on Web site (CIOL) - NEW DELHI, INDIA: Gifts of cash and gold may be essential to getting a husband in India, but hundreds of people are flocking to a matrimonial Web site which finds suitable partners averse to this traditional practice of dowry.

Wedding gowns on sale at the Christiansburg Goodwill Store (WDBJ 7 Roanoke) - Many brides-to-be are making special trips to the Goodwill Store in Christiansburg to purchase their wedding gowns. The store has more than 200 wedding dresses and about 300 formal gowns to choose from. The dresses are all brand new and were donated by the owners of the Memory Lane store.

2003 Tabletop Series, Part II: Refocusing Your Tabletop Department (The Gourmet Retailer) - APRIL 01, 2003 -- Unfortunately, the tabletop category is often an afterthought for specialty gourmet retailers who focus on providing the best in kitchen tools, equipment, and accessories for their customers.

Top Classifieds (San Jose Mercury News) - Halfway through October we're so awash in pink ribbons and pink retailing that it's hard to remember a time when there wasn't "awareness" of the breast-cancer death toll. The question now is what is happening to all those pink-product research dollars?