She notes that this couple could help the cake baker, the photographer or the venue market themselves, but other brides and grooms may not have skills a vendor could use.

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Telekom has wooed several foreign brides, but getting them to the altar has proved altogether trickier.

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But little did the more recent prospective brides and their eager families know that Kleinfelds was teetering at the brink of Chapter 11.

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But I guess it's the brides.

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But again, they largely protect the foreign brides.

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Calligrapher Carrie Shuping, who specializes in wedding invitations, gets many requests from brides these days for a guest's name to be written in cursive or italics but the address in block print.

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