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Toilet-paper wedding dress wins contest

This fashionable white frock rolled out with the top prize of $1,000

CHARMIN TOILET PAPER WEDDING DRESS
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This design by Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Ill., was the winner of Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com fourth annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress contest sponsored by Charmin and Ripley's Believe it or Not! The prize was $1,000.
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updated 10:19 a.m. ET June 20, 2008

Tourists gaped at six stunning wedding dresses displayed at Ripley's Believe It or Not! in New York's Times Square.

The fashionable white frocks were fashioned entirely of toilet paper.

Six dresses were displayed at the Times Square "odditorium" Thursday and three winning designers squared off for the top prize of $1,000.

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The judges from Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Charmin and Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com crowned this year's winner, Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Ill. She spent two weeks creating a sheath dress with a raised flower pattern from molded toilet paper.

Terro Glover of Marlin, Texas, was a second prize winner. Ann Lee, of Honolulu, Hawaii, placed third in the annual dress competition, which just celebrated its fourth year.

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