TheBridesReview.com Web News Archive

Counting down and planning the BIG DAY (The Virginia Gazette) - Introduce both families and announce your engagement. Begin a budget. Create a guest list. Select a tentative date. Choose your wedding party.

Week in Review (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - ENERGY Kohl's to add solar panels Continuing the most sweeping rollout of solar power...

Review: 'Things We Lost' too melodramatic (The San Francisco Examiner) - Danish soap virtuoso Susanne Bier, of "Brothers" and "After the Wedding" fame, has made her first Hollywood film, "Things We Lost in the Fire," and, once again, she works the tear-jerk mechanism expertly. But Bier's trademark emotional richness and dramatic potency are missing from this grief-and-recovery story. Consequently, it's just a middling weepie.

The second time around (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Second marriages, while beautiful, require a lot of thought, planning and adequate time before the wedding to determine compatibility.

The Comebacks (2007) (New York Times) - The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. The producers of The Wedding Crashers are back with the comedy The Comebacks . Spoofing countless inspirational sports movies, the film stars David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) as Champ Fields, a football coach who suffers from a streak of bad luck that has become the stuff of legend.

Review: Things We Lost in the Fire (Denver Post) - "Am I lit from within?" In "Things We Lost in the Fire," this tender question arises poolside during a father-son chat about the shimmer of the water and the meaning of "luminescent.

Lost! Found! (The Morning News) - Surely more than one person in Northwest Arkansas forgets things, misplaces items, loses them. John wears his third wedding ring -- for his first marriage. He also has a penchant for losing sunglasses, and he likes expensive ones. Buy a new pair? "Forget about it!" his wife says.

ASK AMY (Washington Post) - Dear Amy: My fiance and I are planning to marry this June, but I have a problem that I am not sure how to handle.

Ross -- Curnalia (Arizona Daily Sun) - Ryan Ross and Kristin Curnalia are pleased to announce their engagement.

Oregon Recreation Report (Corvallis Gazette-Times) - Flows in the North and South Santiams have been holding pretty steady and are still fishable. Anticipated rains this week will likely bring river levels up. Recycling of fish from the Minto and Foster traps has been discontinued for the year, but steelhead are still in the rivers and in good shape.