| Here comes the bride, with eyes on an antique wedding knot
This spring, wedding season has contemporary couples tying the knot with history in mind. Many weddings, from the first steps down the aisle to the last dance at the reception, show us that everything old is new again! Antique wedding accessories have taken center stage at today's wedding showers, ceremonies and receptions. Old-time objects highlight the past while making today's brides blush with antique style. Remembering the Renaissance when important letters were sealed for security, today's brides use white wax and wax seals for correspondence, ranging from love letters to wedding invitations. Late 19th-century wax seals may turn up in grandma's attic or at your local flea market with price tags ranging from $50 to $500. Old, favorite wedding traditions are reinvented.
Federal officials recover stolen wedding dresses
Federal authorities have recovered $3 million worth of wedding dresses and accessories stolen in Scottsdale in November from the Oregon-based charity Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday its agents recently found the stolen apparel inside a trailer attached to a truck crossing from Mexico into Arizona in Nogales. More details on the recovery of the dresses are expected on Tuesday at a press conference in Nogales.
The charity takes new dresses donated by shops and manufacturers and sells them at a discount at bridal shows across the country. Profits help grant the dying wishes of cancer victims, such as giving families one final vacation together before their loved one passes.
More than 1,000 missing bridal gowns and wedding accessories were last seen inside a 40-foot trailer attached to a truck that was reported stolen Nov.
Harrison woman's creation more than just a bridal box
MariaClaudia Casella, who owns Harrison Brides & Babies, created the First Comes Love Box after getting married, losing a child in a miscarriage, then giving birth to her daughter, who was born three months prematurely and nurtured to health in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of White Plains Hospital Center. "I wanted to give back to the hospital somehow," said Casella, of Harrison. Her creation is on display in her shop in downtown Harrison, where she sells bridal accessories by appointment. As she took it apart to display its components, she explained its multifaceted purpose. She started with the outer box, covered with white satin with a delicate floral pattern. "First comes love; they can use it for wedding planning to store their supplies. It makes a great shower gift," she said.
My Wedding Favors Joins Fight Against Breast Cancer In Atlanta
Atlanta-based favor and gift online retailer to offer free party favors and exclusive door prizes at the Brides Against Breast Cancer annual gown sale this weekend. Atlanta, GA (PRWeb) March 28, 2007 -- My Wedding Favors, Atlanta's own international retailer of wedding favors and accessories, is donating a variety of the Kate Aspen line of designer wedding favors to this weekend's Brides Against Breast Cancer charity gown sale in Midtown. My Wedding Favors will offer several hundred beautiful wedding favors free of charge to guests at the annual event, along with a selection of trendy embroidered tote bags to be given as door prizes. Held in over 32 cities each year, the Brides Against Breast Cancer gown sale is the largest and most successful of the Making Memories Foundation's efforts to raise money for men and women with terminal breast cancer.
Leave the ex-couple alone, says Blair
Tony Blair yesterday called for the media to leave Prince William and his former girlfriend Kate Middleton alone, following the highly public ending of their four-year relationship. As Ms Middleton, 25, spent the weekend privately with her parents at home in the village of Bucklebury, Berkshire, the prince, second in line to the throne, returned to his regiment in Dorset, after a Friday-night visit to a London nightclub. The prime minister said on the BBC's Politics Show yesterday: "I think in respect of Prince William, they are a young couple. We have had the announcement, fine. They should be left alone now, without reams of stuff being written - that I can assure you, from my experience of royal stories, most of which will be complete nonsense. I think, now it has been announced, they should be allowed to get on with their lives." .
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