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It's hard enough finding a bride when you're alive, imagine what it's like when you're dead. Today's New York Times has an interesting article about a Chinese practice in which families find brides for sons who died before they were married. Thankfully, the blushing brides are already dead, too - they get the corpses together and bury them in a the same grave.

Alas, marriage isn't any easier in the West, particularly if your parents are insane:

Sometimes a bride or groom has second thoughts as the Big Day approaches.

In this case, it was the bride's parents.

Utah prosecutors have charged Julia and Lemuel Redd with kidnapping their daughter Julianna, 21, the day before her Aug. 5 wedding and driving her from Provo, Utah, to Grand Junction, Colo., to prevent her marriage.

They took her home the next day, after the wedding time had come and gone, Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said. “You can't take an adult child against their will, even if you don't agree with the course of action or the path they're taking in their life,” he said.

Not surprisingly, the happy couple (apparently) eloped shortly thereafter. Should make for an interesting Thanksgiving!