The Truth About Suri Cruise’s Fashion Line. SURI CRUISE is not launching a fashion line, contrary to speculation stating the opposite. A spokesperson on behalf of her mother, Katie Holmes, confirmed that the rumours were “100 per cent” false this afternoon. The seven-year-old was said to have signed a £1.5 million deal to design a [...]
Lace, pastels and back interest for brides. Almost as soon as a girl gets engaged, the quest for the perfect wedding dress begins. With good reason. Between choosing, ordering and fittings, bridal gowns can take up to six months to become reality. Brides often start by visiting shops to see what’s available. This year, according to [...]
Chinese Grave Robbers Jailed for Selling Ghost Brides. Four Chinese men are facing more than 2 years in prison for digging up female corpses and selling them for ghost marriages, an ancient ritual of burying newly deceased women alongside dead bachelors so that they can accompany each other in their afterlives, according to the state-run [...]
How losing weight ‘empowers’ film stars – and brides. Hollywood stars lose weight for a role, as it shows their commitment to the part. Could that be the same reason so many British brides go on a pre-wedding diet? To win an Oscar, actors often have to lose a bit of themselves. The meat around [...]
Outside of Hollywood, the real-life equivalent of fasting for a role is the pre-wedding diet. Both involve shedding weight for a single photo call; both require you to change your appearance to show your commitment to the part. More than five million women in the UK lose weight before their wedding; over the course of [...]
The Lengths Chinese Matchmakers Go To Find Love For Their Millionaire Clients Are Pretty Extreme. Dating in China sounds ever-more depressing, with stories about “leftover women” and lonely male “bare branches” becoming all too common-place. The sad demographics that create these stories are undeniable — thanks in part to China’s one child policy, China may [...]
Larmer describes one of Yang’s newest jobs — finding a wife for a divorced 42-year-old property mogul willing to spend half a million on the hunt. Mr. Big, as I’ll call him — he insisted that [matchmaking service] Diamond Love not reveal his name — is a member of China’s fuyidai, the “first-generation rich” who [...]
Simon Cowell to fend off wannabe brides for Comic Relief. Simon Cowell will have to fight off male hopefuls for the role of his mystery bride.The music mogul is set to get hitched for the first time in a hilarious sketch to raise money for Comic Relief on Friday (15.03.13), which will see David Walliams [...]
House of Brides Announces St. Patrick’s Day Bridal Sale. House of Brides released details about their upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Bridal Sale Saturday, March 16th and Sunday, March 17th including storewide savings. House of Brides posted the announcement Monday for their St. Patrick’s Bridal Sale. The sale is available at all House of Brides locations [...]
In drought-hit Maharashtra, young ‘brides’ have good resale value. With drought in Maharashtra, ‘selling’ and ‘reselling’ of brides is likely to become an increasingly lucrative business for nefarious elements—the bride agents. It has been known that the agents scour Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu to look for prospective brides for men from gender-skewed regions of [...]
Though Pardhi had no answers, Shafiqur Rehman Khan of Campaign Against Bride Trafficking has them. “The ceremony solemnising such marriages are most appropriately called as Thag Vivah (cheat marriage). Rarely does the bride enjoy the social status of a wife. These women are either known as Paro brides, as in stolen, or Molki brides as [...]
Hyde Park’s only bridal boutique helps brides-to-be find dream dresses. The soft, flowing material of hundreds of wedding dresses line the walls of Hyde Park Bridal. Light pink furniture and mirrored tables add a distinctly feminine touch to the brightly lit boutique. Amanda Topits, 26, opened Hyde Park Bridal on Sept. 8, and has since [...]
DRIVING across the George Washington Bridge in the spring of 2006, with everything I owned in the trunk and Manhattan shining in the distance, I might have been the most clichéd girl in America. I tried not to dwell on the fact that I had no money, no apartment, no job. A friend was gracious [...]
Now my entire life is packed into boxes in my best friend’s room, which, oh, by the way, does not even have a door. And you want me to work at Brides.com? Yes, I’m familiar with the Web site, all of those beautiful photo galleries of flower arrangements. Oh, and that Deco-inspired photograph with the [...]
But I held back the tears. I held back the tears when I found myself stuck in the elevator with a rack of wedding gowns, full of tulle and promise. I held back the tears during a Brides.com staff retreat to the Catskills that was nothing like a honeymoon. What finally did it was an [...]
Marriage In the Age of the Printable Engagement Ring. Recently, the internet has been abuzz about the arrival of the 3-D printer, which now makes it possible to print objects, actual things, from your own home. Some folks are saying that it will create a manufacturing renaissance as entrepreneurial types can print their products with [...]
Millennials are obsessed with marriage. With blogs like The Knot, Style Me Pretty, and TV channels such as TLC making every element of the bridal experience into its own show, the wedding obsession has never been so robust. We weren’t actively putting off marriage, we were just busy worshiping at the Temple of TwentySomething, where [...]
This isn’t to suggest that we are frivolous, but rather that we are painfully aware of how fleeting marriage and moments of true love can be. Conservatives and the older generations may disagree, but hey, even Newt Gingrich has been married three times! Millennials can recite divorce rates and growing up in “broken homes,” but [...]
Despite all of this, we Millennials still want to get married. Guys seem to embrace the institution comfortably — happily doing what they think is their share of the chores, and frequently citing being a good husband and dad as some of their top indicators of a successful life. And us girls get over our [...]
‘Bachelor’ Sean Lowe, Catherine Giudici Waiting Until Marriage For Sex. “Bachelor” Sean Lowe is officially engaged to Catherine Giudici, and the two have decided to wait until their wedding night to get physical. In a candid interview with People magazine, Lowe revealed that he and Giudici will wait until marriage to have sex. “From my [...]
Cost Of A Wedding: The Knot’s Annual Survey Reveals Brides Spent More In 2012. The average price of a wedding reached a new high in 2012. TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com’s annual Real Weddings Study revealed that the average amount spent on a wedding in 2012 was $28,427, with couples dropping more cash than they have in [...]
‘Brides Against Breast Cancer’ helps patients by offering bargains. Brides Against Breast Cancer’s national tour stopped in Kansas City this weekend, offering wedding gowns at great prices for a spectacular cause. Brides-to-be sifted through hundreds of wedding dresses at the Marriott on the Plaza. Many of them left with fabulous bargains.Hailey Erickson isn’t getting married until [...]
Child brides: How old is too young to marry? The UN warns that 140 million girls will become child brides between 2011 and 2020. The United Nations is warning that millions more young girls are destined to become child brides, saying if current trends hold many will be under the age of 15.The marrying off [...]
Making a Difference: The brides project. The Brides’ Project is a non-profit organization founded by Helen Sweet in 2004 that offers up to 500 donated dresses at affordable prices with the proceeds go towards cancer care and research. “We accept donated gowns from brides and salons, and new brides come here and they find the [...]
THERE must be something in the water at a Shirley utilities firm – for SEVEN of its employees will all be tying the knot this year.As well as a surge in marriage proposals amongst the 92 staff at Energy and Utility Skills, the Friars Gate business has also experienced its own baby boom. Seven employees [...]
Brides choosing softer, whimsical buns and braids. She’s more than a bride. She’s the art director of her big day. Taking cues from show’s like TLC’s “Four Weddings” and WE TV’s “My Fair Wedding” and sites including WeddingWire, Pinterest and The Knot, modern brides focus on the details that set the scene they envision, down [...]
The trick with either hairstyle is to make it whimsical, not tight and stuffy, says Maria Josette Navarro, lead stylist at Anjolique Bridal and Formal in Huntersville. She might curl the entire head, then pin the hair up loosely so it’s not “too done.” “A lot of the bridesmaids I’m seeing, they’re wanting a braid [...]
One in five brides with cold feet are divorced within four years. Brides-to-be should heed their nagging doubts, a new study shows, as nearly one in five women with cold feet before their wedding are divorced four years later. When people have premarital doubts they think they do not have to worry, but new research [...]
Wedding stopped as best man loses bride’s ring. Mum lends hers before vicar finds band in church hours after ceremony. A WEDDING had to be put on hold mid-ceremony — after the best man lost the bride’s ring. Matt Aubrey dropped the band shortly after the start of the marriage service for his brother Lewis, [...]
Modern Bride Exhibition & Fashion Show at Dubai Ladies Club slated for 24 November. Dubai Ladies Club, a member of Dubai Women Establishment, will host its third annual bridal extravaganza on Saturday, 24th November, 2012 from 11am – 9pm. The show will feature bridal fashion shows, extravagant gifts, raffle draws and exhibitors with a diverse [...]
With a limited, elite, and carefully selected assembly of exhibitors, guests will be meeting with some of the most qualified and experienced wedding professionals in the UAE; who have earned themselves an excellent reputation for being at the top of their game in their area of expertise. From photographers to beauticians, florists to reception venues, [...]
Calling Local Bridal Vendors The Modern Bride Exhibition and Fashion Show at Dubai Ladies Club is inviting all local wedding industry vendors to be a part of the best wedding event of the year. If your target market is the well-educated bride-to-be with discerning taste, then you have to be seen at The Modern Bride [...]
My favorites from Face-Off 2012: Matte red lips. Red lipstick seems like a bad idea for your wedding day, but not when it’s the right consistency, shade and finish. The usual red rouge may end up all over the place—your veil, gown and even on your groom, but not when it’s a long-lasting matte formula. [...]
Westport bridal shop to be on TLC show tonight. The Plumed Serpent Bridal, a bridal shop at 295 Post Road East, is slated to be featured tonight on the TLC reality program, “I Found the Gown.” The program will be shown on the cable television network at 10 p.m. The show is hosted by Rick [...]
Office “Bride Wars” as dates of colleagues’ weddings clash. Brides-to-be in a Scottish company are in the midst of their own “Bride Wars” as three colleagues plan to tie the knot within a fortnight of each other.Almost half the staff at Roselle Events in Edinburgh are either newly wed or eagerly awaiting the big day. [...]
Bridal makeup trends at Face-Off 2012. I’m getting married soon, and I still haven’t decided on my makeup. What are the latest trends I can follow? When it comes to weddings, the only requirement is that the bride should look fresh and beautiful. Trends may come and go, but it is usually the tried-and-tested looks [...]
TLC Renews Hit Bridal Series RANDY TO THE RESCUE for Second Season. TLC’s hit series RANDY TO THE RESCUE – which premiered in June 2012 – has been renewed for a second season. Season two is slated to premiere in May 2013 with 10 hour-long episodes. Season one premiere episodes averaged 1.4M P2+ viewers. In [...]
Fall Bridal Show: From fake cakes to elegant ruffles, Holland bakery caters to wedding trends and brides’ wishes. When it comes to wedding cakes, the creators at Holland’s Second Floor Bakery say brides are looking for the trappings of elegant romance: ruffles, textures and pure white cakes. But as the business gears up for next [...]
Brides and grooms-to-be take in Brigg Wedding Fayre at the Angel Suite. Not only brides-to-be called in at the Brigg Wedding Fayre in the Angel Suite on Sunday; some grooms of the near future also put in an appearance.Other people without a happy event on the horizon just went along to enjoy the free event. [...]
Saudi Arabia brides If Saudi brides are allowed to drive, it will lead to them having premarital sex, a report to a high-level advisory group claims, according to a rights activist. The ultra-conservative stance suggests increasing pressure on King Abdullah to retain the kingdom’s male-only driving rules. Waleed Abu Alkhair said the report, by Kamal [...]
Brides Les Bains Offers Enticements. Brides les Bains, the traditional small town resort below Méribel in the 3 Valleys has come up with a number of special enticements to attract skiers and boarders to stay there rather than slopeside up in the mountains. By taking the Olympe gondola lift – which was built for the [...]
20 Arrested in NYC for Trafficking Eastern European and Russian Woman Twenty people were arrested Wednesday in connection to trafficking Eastern European and Russian Woman in New York City. Russian Woman were allegedly forced to dance at strip clubs and marry men in Binghamton, N.Y. The defendants are accused of getting fake visas and work [...]
Victoria’s Secret Sexy Angel reveals her open secret. Russian runway siren, green-eyed supermodel Anne V has had to abstain from her fave food – fruit – entirely, to get her washboard stomach ready for the latest Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York. The strict diet lasted three weeks, but the result proved mind-blowing. The [...]
Russian Brides having a ball in UK. Russian brides supermodel Natalia Vodianova has earned herself a place on a list of the most stylish Brits. “Harpers Bazaar” magazine listed the 29-year-old Russian as Britain’s 12th best-dressed woman of 2011. Russian brides Vodianova lives and works predominantly in the UK, hence her qualifying for the list. [...]
Russia’s powerful contingent of Russian girls made their mark in 2004 by winning three of four Grand Slam tournaments. Add another Russian first after Monday’s round of 16. For the first time in the Open era (since 1968), four Russian girls have advanced to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. Fourth-round winners included second [...]
Criminal gang recruiting Russian women for strip clubs busted in U.S. U.S. federal agents arrested on Thursday 20 members of a criminal gang that allegedly smuggled women from Russia and Eastern Europe to work at local strip clubs, the New York Post said, quoting prosecutors. Charges brought against the suspected criminals include visa fraud, marriage [...]
U.S. Busts Ring That Forced Russian Women Into Strip Clubs. U.S. authorities say they have broken up a Mafia-related operation that lured Russian women and other Eastern European countries and forced them to work as dancers at New York City strip clubs. Authorities said 20 men were charged on November 30 in connection with the [...]
The 2006 Curling European Champions, the Russian women’s team, will be looking to repeat their success as Moscow hosts the prestigious event for the first time. The European Curling Championships gets underway in Moscow on Saturday, with the Russian women’s team considered among the favorites. “There will be a lot of their friends and relatives [...]
