She arrived in New York less than four years ago, a bride from India hoping for a good life with a man who bragged of being a millionaire.
But in bad times, the public mood shifts, the government makes policy on the run, and a bride from Guilderland prepares to walk down the aisle alone.
Randy Fenoli, the fashion director of Kleinfeld Bridal in New York and the host of "Say Yes to the Dress," a reality show on TLC, said he recently talked a bride from Houston out of buying three dresses, one of which cost $8,000.
Kristin May**, a bride from Chicago, got a letter from a photographer who she had originally booked but ultimately decided not to use.
Isis has used the four-year-old son of a "jihadi bride" from London in a propaganda video showing three men being strapped into a car and blown up.
As an affectionate, gently comic tale of a young bride from Jamaica who lands up in London, it is tempting to see Small Island as this year's White Teeth.
In 1967, a young bride from Boston moves to Bangkok, where she becomes obsessed with the fate of a charismatic American entrepreneur who vanishes in the Thai highlands.
"Honolulu" is about the Asian immigrant experience in Hawaii during the early 20th century, specifically about a "picture bride" from Korea who travels to Hawaii and finds that her life is not as she expected it would be.
In "Birthday Girl," Nicole Kidman (above, with Mathieu Kassovitz) plays a mail-order bride from Russia who delivers more than a repressed English bank clerk was expecting: eventually, both his career and his life are threatened.
(Jove, $4.95). A mail-order bride from Boston finds true love on the Minnesota frontier.
And his grandmother has a wide independent streak: a World War II bride from Belgium, she had divorced her first husband and stayed single and supported herself for about 30 years before marrying the second.
