In January, a video was posted to Google-owned YouTube that featured a bride-to-be panicking about her new hairdo and cutting it off the night before her wedding.

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The match is struck the second outsiders learn of a betrothal: A bride-to-be, especially, becomes public property and an age-old archetype and she is expected to fire off, on command, the event date and location, number of guests, maker of dress and, by golly, she had better loft that ring finger for inspection.

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He had a young bride-to-be and was waiting at a Navy medical center to transition home.

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Steve Silverberg, a 26-year-old attorney in New York, and his bride-to-be, Sarah Francis, created an Oxfam-centric affair.

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She's already hit a bachelorette weekend in Nashville and plans on a beach getaway for another bride in Florida, but she ran out of vacation days and can't go on a cruise with another close friend and bride-to-be.

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Well, with rehab going along smoothly and football fans everywhere imploring Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan to better protect this emerging NFL star, RGIII has found himself a nice place to recuperate and settle down with his soon-to-be bride.

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William, who is 28, like his bride-to-be, has graduated as a search and rescue pilot at RAF Valley, where he is spending about three years.

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