Some excerpts from essays submitted in the “Brandon Is For Brides Great Wedding Giveaway,” in which prospective brides and grooms were invited to describe their dream Vermont wedding, with a $40,000 wedding in Brandon, Vt., going to the winner:

• “So why us? Well, the best answer I’ve got is this: we like the cows, the postcard-perfect mountains, Ben and Jerry’s, Magic Hat, all that.”

• A maid of honor, hoping to win the wedding for her girlfriend, wrote: “They are so strapped for cash, they have decided to hold off on having a honeymoon … maybe indefinitely! Just so they can have a decent wedding. If Brandon chose them as the winning couple, they would be able to afford it.”

• Another, calling herself “the farthest away from a “Bridezilla’ as a bride can get,” promised not to bother organizers about seating charts, centerpieces or corsages. “We don’t want a lavish affair that will have us starting our lives off in debt,” she wrote.

• One bride-to-be just wanted a wedding that wasn’t in New York, which would “be like a thousand others, and will take place at an overpriced catering hall and the DJ will sound like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.”

• A woman planning to marry a man from Scotland wrote that she had been to Brandon many times and didn’t want “the traditional New Jersey extravaganza and hoopla” wedding. “Having experienced your lifestyle and community, I can say with great confidence that there is only one thing that your town is truly lacking – that is men in kilts.”