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A New Reason To Be Proud (The Harvard Crimson) - SAN FRANCISCO — At the Pride 2008 parade, there was one word on everyone’s lips: marriage. Brides of all genders donned wedding dresses ranging in style from fashionably regal to delightfully wacky. Besuited but bare-chested grooms strutted alongside scantily clad dancers.

Brides charged to try (Daily Telegraph) - HIGH-end designers are charging brides-to-be hundreds of dollars to try on wedding dresses - to deter single women and time-wasters for fun and fantasy.

Brides charged to try on wedding gowns (News Interactive) - FASHION designers are charging brides-to-be hundreds of dollars to try on wedding dresses to deter single women and time-wasters.

Getting dream wedding dresses at bargain price (CNN.com) - NEW YORK (AP) -- The fairytale weddings that many couples have yearned for are starting to come back down to earth -- leveled by everyday problems like house payments and rising gas and food bills.

Brides rev up gay pride parade (San Jose Mercury News) - A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in wedding gowns and wearing bridal veils lent a matrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelers celebrated their newfound freedom to marry. Same-sex marriage section

Brides rev up parade (The Daily Review) - A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in wedding gowns and wearing bridal veils lent a matrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelers celebrated their newfound freedom to marry.

70 acts from free jazz to hip-hop to alt-country and beyond (Detroit Free Press) - There are more than 70 acts playing Comerica Cityfest's four stages today through Sunday -- a mix of big-name national musicians and some of the top performers on the local scene. The best thing about the eclectic lineup? The music is all free.

High-profile projects in limbo (The Arizona Republic) - A celebrity chef was planning the menus, brides were negotiating room rates and 250 staffers were on the payroll. But four months before Hotel Monroe was scheduled to open, its lender went bankrupt.

Child brides give voice to their defiance in Yemen (International Herald Tribune) - Two girls' stories have helped spur a movement to put an end to child marriage, which is increasingly seen as a crucial part of the cycle of poverty in Yemen.

O'Klondike! Stand by for the rush as gold worth £450m is found under a tiny Irish village (Daily Mail) - It could be enough to trigger a Klondike-style gold rush. Prospectors claim to have discovered the biggest gold reserve ever found in the British Isles - deep beneath an Irish village.