TheBridesReview.com Web News Archive

Planning Your Wedding while Planning for the Future (Southwest Daily News) - (ARA) - Your wedding day should be special, with family and friends gathered to help you celebrate, the ceremony reflecting your love and the reception providing a perfect finale.

Wedding bells will ring at state fair (Louisville Courier-Journal) - The Indiana State Fair is holding the second annual Marriage on the Midway contest, giving Hoosier couples the chance to compete for a wedding that will feature fair food, rides and 100 friends and family.

Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Teen Hollywood) - Arrrr, me hearties, Captain Jack and Will Turner are back and boy, are they in some complicated trouble! In this sequel to the blockbuster we all know and love, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) is all soggy and rain-soaked in her wedding dress.

You'll sing musical's praises (Poughkeepsie Journal) - Here I sit at my computer, writing the review of "The Wedding Singer" as I promised, and listening to the CD of the show for probably the umpteenth time because I just love the score.

Welcome to our celebrations page! (Gloucester Daily Times) - Welcome to our celebrations page! You'll find all of this week's wedding, engagement and anniversary announcements. Please see the celebrations index that appears in the column to the right for specific information.

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Pirates of Caribbean' sequel walks plank (Grand Forks Herald) - Hollywood's smart guys predicted producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski were sailing into disaster with 2003's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl."

Theater review: Drama of youth plays out in "Romeo and Juliet" (Wisconsin State Journal) - SPRING GREEN - In his program notes for "Romeo and Juliet," American Players Theatre's artistic director David Frank describes the Shakespearean tragedy as "a younger play centered on younger people."

Review: Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Stuff) - ***½ While the pirates of the Caribbean don't say "yo ho ho" at all, and the bottles o' rum are for drinkin' or explodin', these are some of the most rollickingly watchable pirates yet committed to celluloid.

Live Review: Neko Case in Edmonton (Jam! Showbiz) - EDMONTON - A friend of mine who taught in Japan tells the story of how none of her students believed her, as she explained wet clothes will dry in the air here in almost no time. It's so humid near Tokyo that things stay wet - the process is protracted.

Theater Review: Sexism isn't so funny in SLT's "I Do! I Do!" (The Times) - Once upon a time not so long ago in popular entertainment, the man wore the pants in the family and the woman ironed them. It was an era when husbands were educated, wives were domesticated, and marriage was a rich battleground for the war of the sexes.