They also found the cost of the bridal dress had leapt from 683 to 871 in a year.

She had lived ever since in her bridal dress, amid the ruins of her wedding feast.

In her curiosity though, she went to look at the device and a pearl from her bridal dress accidentally dropped into it, thus upsetting it.

The challenge was to create a bridal dress using at least 50 percent of the inexpensive gowns they have chosen.

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Today we feel the pressure to have our weddings look like the cover of a bridal magazine or movie set.

A recent survey by a bridal magazine has revealed that the average cost of getting hitched will set happy couples back a staggering 21,000.

She has constantly got bridal magazines out and keeps looking at houses online.

It follows a bridal magazine competition for the most original wedding, the ultimate prize being a house, and the three couples who are chosen to compete.

A whole industry has built up around the big day, fuelled by over-the-top celebrity weddings and glossy bridal magazines.

Urban bridal salons are usually considered to be more stylish and popular than the rural ones, which are usually less expensive.

Individual bridal salons are also beginning to feature their sample dresses online, with the option of purchasing in-store or through the website.

Bridal salons typically carry two collections per year, and so often offer their in-store sample dresses at a discount in order to make room for new bridal gowns.

Or else ornate chandeliers and white chaises like an upmarket bridal store - we have one of those as well.

Rather than trawl through endless rails at bridal stores, she decided instead to track down the second-hand dress on the internet.

This chain of bridal stores was like none of its kind.

The may was in full bloom, glossing the hedgerows like a bridal veil, and the alternation of deciduous and evergreen, the floral and the leafy, made the journey a pleasure.

The yellow mark on the back of the head suggests a bridal veil.

Brides may choose to wear them as an alternative to a bridal veil or hat, particularly if their gowns are non-traditional.

Her bridal gown, with the family coat of arms embroidered on it, and her bridal veil now covers the altar table.

After arrival in the laboratory, cell suspensions are vortexed, poured through tulle (bridal veil fabric) and centrifuged.