Occasionally, when working with the seemingly boundless treasure that is the LIFE magazine archive, one comes across series of pictures, or long-forgotten articles, that clearly and undeniably capture something telling about their own time — while casting an unexpected light on our own imperfect

Anna Rountree, Heaven Awaits the Bride, Official site.

Directed by Gary Winick. With Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg. Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.

IN MEMORIAM: Daphne P. Pugliese, 92; War Bride Met Husband At USO Dance Daphne Pearl Pugliese. COOPERSTOWN – Mrs. Daphne Pearl Pugliese, 92, long-time resident of Cooperstown, passed away quietly in the early hours of Saturday, April 28, 2018, at Centers Health Care.

The Japanese once ruled the Boston Marathon. A war bride’s son recalls the slurs.

MUSIC OF THE GREAT WAR. POPULAR WORLD WAR ONE SING ALONG CUSTOM MP3 SONGS WITH ORIGINAL LYRICS. The Great War era songs helped to improve morale among the soldiers, and those serving at home.

In Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region in Uzbekistan, nearly one fifth of all marriages are conducted by bride napping. Activist groups in the region tie an increase in nappings to economic instability.

The story of the Canadian war brides and their journey to Canada is one of the most fascinating and romantic of World War Two. Why nearly 45,000 British and European women would leave behind everything that was familiar to start a new life in post-war Canada is a story worth telling.

Directed by Rob Reiner. With Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon. While home sick in bed, a man’s grandman reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

War bride is a term used in reference to foreign women who married military personnel in times of war or during their military occupations of foreign countries, especially–but not exclusively–during World War I and World War II.