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Loaner I do's: Today's brides rent the cake, the jewelry and the gown, too (New York Daily News) - Rent the hall, hire the limo and stump for a fistful of loaner tuxes - standard fixtures on a wedding checklist. These days, that's not all: Savvy brides are looking to hire, rather than buy, the bulk of their big day. Welcome to the era of the Rental Wed.

Brides and their blushing grooms (Stuff) - Brides there were a-plenty, but blushing was reserved for husbands only in New Plymouth. While the women needed no encouragement to don their wedding gear once more for the Bride of the Year competition, it was a brave few males who took to the stage in front of a full house at the Plymouth Hotel.

Some brides embracing cheaper wedding days (The Charlotte Observer) - Brides are still saying “I do” in 2009, but they're saying “I don't” to lavish weddings.

Brides bounced by lodge fire: Rebuilding lags at wedding spot (Rutland Herald) - WALLINGFORD — Brides and grooms planning a wedding or reception at Wallingford Lodge near Elfin Lake over the next couple of months will have to look for other venues. ...

Brides-to-be fret over fires in Santa Barbara (AP via Yahoo! News) - Bride-to-be Carrie Beers has been planning to hold her intimate wedding among winding staircases, terraced gardens and 13 acres of avocado orchards at a Spanish-style villa tucked into a Santa Barbara canyon.

Betrothal on a budget: Wausau-area brides, grooms tying knot in tight economy (Wausau Daily Herald) - As summer wedding season approaches, thousands of brides are struggling to fund the typically lavish occasions leading to a sharper focus on savings and simplicity than in past years.

Brides-to-be fret over fires in Santa Barbara (San Francisco Chronicle) - Bride-to-be Carrie Beers has been planning to hold her intimate wedding among winding staircases, terraced gardens and 13 acres of avocado orchards at a Spanish-style villa tucked into a Santa Barbara canyon. Now the New Yorker is worried her West Coast...

Bob Dylan hid one marriage - and a daughter - for 15 years. Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other ... (Daily Mail: World News) - Bob Dylan hid one marriage - and a daughter - for 15 years. Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other children?

Marital Dynamic Changes When A Woman Is Her Husband's Boss (Hartford Courant) - Sometimes in the offices of Brides-to-Be Shows, where lollipops peek out from a pink basket and a heart-shaped photo hangs on the refrigerator, Don Evanowski forgets. He acts as if he and Cyd LaChiusa Evanowski are just husband and wife. But then they have a disagreement. That's when, he says, "I always cave in when I realize she is the boss."

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