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Carolina News Brigham Young students launch Web site to help young couples marry College Press Exchange Danny and Andrea Heid had plenty of frustrations planning their wedding while students at Brigham Young Uni versity. Their worries led them to launch a Wfeb site called utahbrides.com to assist young couples ready to tie the knot. “We would come home from school, and everything was closed. It was diffi cult because we had to drive around every where looking for what we wanted,” Andrea Heid told The Daily Universe, BYU’s campus paper. The Web site has proven popular, earning 250,000 hits. About 30 percent of its users are BYU students, The Daily Universe reported The site even allows brides to create their own fine home pages. The key to the site’s success is that it caters to Utah customers by listing local resources, including vendors and 360 de gree tours of wedding ballrooms, Danny Heid said The Heids are planning to go nation al soon. 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