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No Longer Just for Babies and Brides: New Registry Launches for School Teachers to Create Classroom Wish List (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - A new online registry for teachers created by Minnesota-based Anderson's, is launching in time for back to school. Similar to registries for babies and brides, Gold Star Registry is designed to allow teachers to post a wish list of the supplemental classroom tools that enhance their learning environment, such as skill-builders, achievement awards and learning incentives.

Brides moving away from tradition registry items to more practical pics (Midland Reporter-Telegram) - By Megan Lea Buck Assistant Lifestyle Editor Creating a gift registry can be an exciting process for a bride. It's a chance to decide what items the soon-to-be married couple needs or wants to enhance their life together. Traditionally, bridal registries consisted of fine china, crystal stemware, sterling silver flatware and silver-plated serving dishes. Midland's modern brides are finding, just ...

Northwood's own 'Bridezilla': TV series features Megan Cantu as one of its bossy brides (The Toledo Blade) - It's hard to say when Northwood resident Megan Cantu became a bridezilla, one of those demanding, fire-breathing brides who wants to control every element of her wedding. Was it when she threw her fiance's "SINGLE" T-shirt in the toilet a few days before the wedding and said, "He belongs to me. I own him. He is not single"? Maybe it was when she got mad at her dad for not having selected a ...

Johann Hari: The rebellion of the child-brides (Independent) - Late last year, a tiny little ten year old girl turned up alone at the court in Sana, Yemen, and declared: "I have come to get a divorce."

Weddings cut fanfare with recession woes (Miami Herald) - Wedding guests this year may want to get in line early for dessert. With housing prices down, inflation on the rise and financial worries at fever pitch, brides and grooms are scaling back, too. Among the cost-cutting strategies: smaller cakes.

Couples look for ways to trim wedding costs (Miami Herald) - A tip for wedding guests in an economic downturn: Line up early for dessert. With housing prices down, inflation up and financial worries at fever pitch, brides and grooms are scaling back, too. Among the cost-cutting strategies: smaller cakes.

Brides find bargains, give to charity (News 14 Carolina) - WINSTON-SALEM -- Triad-area brides have the chance to browse wedding gowns, get a good deal and help a charity at the same time. It's all a part of an annual fundraiser called Brides Against Breast Cancer Tour of Gowns.

Bride Alert! Is Long Term Care Insurance in Your Prenup? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Prenuptial agreements are popular with brides of a certain age , who often have accumulated assets, careers, and lifestyles they want to protect. Now there's a new prenup wrinkle, a clause specifying that hubby-to-be get a long term care insurance policy before walking down the aisle.

Wedding gifts can be only a click away (Midland Reporter-Telegram) - By Megan Lea Buck Assistant Lifestyle Editor With fine china or money for a honeymoon only a click away, the Internet has revolutionized the concept of the bridal registry. Web sites such as weddingchannel.com and theknot.com offer assistance to brides in all stages of planning their big day. When it comes to picking out potential wedding gifts, these sites provide one-stop shopping for brides ...

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