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Article: Racing Down the Aisle for Bargain Wedding Gowns; Da-Dum-de-Dum: At Filene's, A Bridal March in Double Time
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- The Washington Post
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- August 5, 2006
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Tamasha Barnes, an architect from Manassas, pulls from her purse a
magazine photograph she clipped four years ago showing a model in a
slim, simple, off-white wedding gown. It is the dress she pined for
long before she even met the right man and long before he proposed to
her. Now it is the dress she dreams of wearing to the altar before
they have even set a date.
The dress is everything.
Barnes, 29, is among the hundreds of women who gathered yesterday
outside Filene's Basement on Wisconsin Avenue NW for its annual
"Running of the Brides," a one-day-only sale of 1,400 designer
wedding dresses. They've been marked down to as low as $249 from as