Bridesville.com Web News Archive

Pricey gold puts damper on Afghan weddings (USA Today) - Take pity on the Afghan bride. Or maybe just as appropriate take pity on the groom. Centuries of pageantry and tradition combined with a recent 26-year high in gold prices are taking a toll on the amount of jewelry a bride here can expect to wear on her wedding day.

Price of gold puts damper on Afghanistan weddings (Deseret Morning News) - Take pity on the Afghan bride. Or maybe just as appropriate take pity on the groom.

Monogramming personal touch (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - Graduations, weddings and baby showers demand memorable gifts. Add functionality and value, and you've found a winning keepsake. When storeowner Mary Kay Lonneman shops new lines for MK's Totebags & Monogramming in Covington, she searches for all the above.

This Week in Weddings: (WPRI 12 Providence) - All my close friends are guys. What do I do about the bridal shower, the bachelorette party and, most importantly, the wedding party? Click through for Carley's answer!

Forms available at paper, online (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) - It is the policy of the Sunday Telegram to report engagements, weddings and anniversaries of all Central Massachusetts residents without charge. Birthday announcements will be published at ages 90, 95 and 100, then yearly thereafter.

Weddings are the rite stuff for romantics (The News-Press) - Is it optimism, naiveté or what? I'm feeling all "Four Weddings and a Funeral" — without the death part. Back-to-back weekends of celebrating unions have wrapped me in a veil of romance — and indecision: What gifts? Which registry? What to wear?

More immigrants request pre-marriage councelling (Catholic Times) - The Dublin-based Catholic marriage counselling service, Accord, has said it is receiving growing numbers of requests from foreign nationals to do pre-marriage courses in Ireland before they return to their native countries for their weddings.

Weddings - May 21, 2006 (Texarkana Gazette) - Alexis Joy Brooke McKellar and Shawn Mikel McGilberry were united in marriage at 5 p.m. May 6 at Garrison-McLain House. The Rev. Jerry Monholland performed the ceremony.

WEDDINGS (The Pueblo Chieftain) - Johnson-Gribble Chanae Johnson and Christopher Gribble were married Feb. 4 at St. Francis Xavier Church with Deacon Malco Vegas officiating. The bride is the daughter of Keith and Terrie Johnson of San Diego. The bridegroom is the son of Fred and Jackie Gribble of Pueblo West. Maid of honor was Tara Crowe and bridesmaids were Mandi Johnson, Amber Ybarra, Alyson Griffith, Natalie Vogel,

Viva Las Vegas-style weddings (Arizona Daily Star) - Bill and Erma Brumley, married 20 years, treated themselves to a white wedding at Tucson Electric Park, which was made up like Sin City on Saturday night for a charity ball.