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Brides on a Budget: 75% of Weddings Being Scaled Back (Fox News) - Brides who say “Yes,” to their fiancées are saying “No” to excess, according to recent studies that show the wedding industry is taking a hit in the down economy.

Mesquite church helps brides on a budget (The Mesquite News) - Many brides spend months n even years n planning their perfect wedding day. From the wording of invitations to the texture of icing on the cake, each detail is meticulously considered to create a ceremony fit for royalty.

Brides Meet Basketball At The AAA (CBS4 Miami) - What does a Miami HEAT Basketball game have in common with a bridal show? Everything, if you attended the first 'Brides and Basketball' event outside the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami Tuesday afternoon.

New book honours Perth County's war brides (Stratford City Gazette) - Jeff Heuchert “It was difficult for my mother, as two daughters were leaving together,” says Irene Dench, who along with her younger sister, Pamela Frame, left family behind and came to Canada at the end of the Second World War.

S.B. Designer Creates Eco-Couture for Brides-to-Be (Santa Barbara Independent) - Santa Barbara-based wedding dress designer Jessica Iverson decided one day last spring she could no longer ignore the ugly truths of the traditional wedding dress production industry.

Clay woman seeks members for World War II war brides group (The Florida Times-Union) -  A newly formed Northeast Florida chapter of the World War II War Brides Association — foreign-born wives and husbands of U.S. military personnel who married during or since that era — is seeking more members.  read more

Wedding spend climbs 5.2 percent (National Jeweler) - New York--Even though the economy took a turn for the worse at the end of 2008, American brides didn't budge on their weddings budgets, the latest survey from The Knot Inc.

Blast accused got info from matrimonial sites (Hindustan Times) - COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Prospective brides and grooms who avail services of online matrimonials, will now have to be more cautious as their photographs and personal details registered on such websites might be lifted by the terrorists for making fake identities.

Vera pretty (Chicago Sun-Times) - Last week, the Sun-Times' Jessica Sedgwick wrote a much-e-mailed article about how to have an entire wedding and reception for under $1,000. Here's the flip side. CS Brides magazine held an "Evening of Bridal Luxury" at the Four Seasons Hotel recently, with a very different target audience.

Terrorists stealing info from matrimonial sites (The Times of India) - MUMBAI: Prospective brides and grooms who avail services of online matrimonial sites, will now have to be more cautious as their photographs and personal details registered on such websites might be lifted by the terrorists for making fake identities.