I was 5 years old when I realized that I was a freak show. In Macon, Ga., good ole boys go huntin’, muddin’ and beer guzzlin’. Peroxide blondes drive pick-up trucks with gun racks. Prayer kicks off ...

NEW YORK (RNS) She is serene and dignified (perhaps even a little bored). Her eyes are slate blue and her lips bee-stung. She wears the marriage finery of early 20th-century Orthodox Judaism: a ...

These are not your grandmother’s yentas. The Wedding Yentas, a Conejo-based Web site offering planning advice to the modern Jewish bride, is the brainchild of Alison Friedman and Nicky Kahn. “While ...

“No dowry, no wedding,” said Larry, who kept his bride and two hundred wedding guests waiting until midnight. He did not appear and the marriage was off. The “wedding” had been arranged by a ...

These days, mail-order brides mostly reside in your spam folder, but in the 1800s, it was a booming industry in the American frontier, and an easy way for women to make it to the New World. And some ...

On Wednesday, Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute and others had the great privilege of meeting a bride (kallah in Hebrew) on her wedding day. It is an ancient custom, from the time of the ...