LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Brides.com selects 10 best walk-down-the-aisle films (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) - Brides.com’s Top 10 wedding movies of all time: 1. “It Had to Be You” (1947): The benefit of multiple trips down the aisle? Multiple wedding dresses, of course! Despite a chronic case of cold feet, Ginger Rogers’ gorgeous wedding gowns are a sight to behold.

I Don't Like The Druggies But The Druggies Like Me (Wonkette) - What the fuck is it with Maryland’s Senate race? Eastern European mail-order brides, phantom Oreos, Kweisi Mfume, and now drug addicts as political props. Can’t you people just elect...

Here Comes The Bridezilla? (KAKE) - July is one of the most popular months for weddings, but the heat, the details, and the anxiety can get to some brides. Weddings can certainly bring out the monster in some women, turning them into "bridezillas."

Tips for Making Your Skin Radiant on Your Wedding Day (Derby Daily Reporter) - (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.

Wedding season marches on (The Business Press) - Wedding bells and cash registers are ringing for planners and providers as the season for nuptials sweeps a growing population off its feet. Florists, bakers, videographers and planners typically cater to brides-to-be from May to October.

The wedding zinger (Philly.com) - Call it serendipity, a happy confluence, or just good luck. In any case, thanks to brides-to-be like Lai Har Cheung of South Philadelphia, the gods are smiling, the stars are aligned, and ticket sales are up for the Broadway musical The Wedding Singer.

Hot times for a baker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Sharie Scott is an artist of the ephemeral. Like Tibetan monks who craft intricate mandalas in the sand, she makes her confectionary creations not for eternity, but for the moment. Her tiered wedding cakes look too good to eat. What has sent increasing numbers of brides her way, she says, is that they taste as good as they look.

Size Matters: Smaller Bowls and Spoons May Curb Consumption (Newswise) - Picking out the perfect bowls and spoons sounds like a concern solely for brides-to-be, but a new study of eating habits suggests that selecting right-sized serving utensils may help dieters avoid unconscious overeating. Using willing colleagues as guinea pigs, the researchers threw an ice cream social to test whether oversized bowls and extra-large ice-cream scoops caused partygoers to dish up

To Avert a Fractured Fairy Tale, a Wedding Planner (New York Times) - As wedding costs rise, so do the number of things that can go awry.

Playboy Indonesia: Modest Flesh Meets Muslim Faith (New York Times) - An editor contends a magazine's critics oppose Western culture, not indecency.