The Post received hundreds of e-mails from brides-to-be hoping to secure the $10,000 wedding dress of their dreams.

Last Sunday, Kesha Nichols, the former Nets dancer who was jilted five days before her Big Apple wedding to NBA superstar Richard Jefferson, agreed to give away the couture gown she never got to wear to a deserving Post reader.

But she could only pick one winner.

Annie Mizrachi, 20, from Midwood, Queens, will don the Guillermo Couture dress for her Nov. 24 wedding at Kings Terrace in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Mizrachi’s mother, Fortune, nominated the bride-to-be, who is the oldest of five children and a student on scholarship at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t other deserving brides, however. Here’s a selection of some of the heartbreaking, interesting and unique entries The Post received. We wish them all a joyful wedding.

Overcoming a Brain Tumor

I am a nurse who works with children. While I was on disability leave, recovering from an eight-year struggle with an eating disorder, I met Anthony. He understood my struggle.

I started to experience strange feelings; an MRI showed there was a small tumor, which would cause permanent hearing loss, facial paralysis and balance issues.

A year after meeting Anthony, I was having brain surgery. During this entire struggle, he stood by me, comforting and praying for me. Thank God, I recovered fully. Anthony and I decided to take this blessing and have a wedding, scheduled next month in Australia with his family. Because of my sickness and being on disability, we have only been able to schedule a small wedding, and the dress I bought was $90 because of our tight budget.
Laura G., 26, Manhattan

Missed Connection Reunites

Twenty-eight years ago, I fell deeply in love with a man while living in London. My visa ran out and I had to return to Spain. He called me in Madrid, but alas I did not get the messages.

Two years ago, a friend suggested I Google him and, lo and behold, I found him. We soon met and fell back in love almost instantly, and now are to be married. I have faced adversity in being without him. Now, together, we will dance through the rest of our lives. I would love to wear that dress.
Maria H., 50, Great Neck, LI

Army Wife

My fiancé and I have been engaged for over a year now. Bruno is a Marine overseas, where he has been working in embassies for the past two years. He will be home in May, when we are getting married, and leaving for Afghanistan shortly after. We are blessed to have one another, but it is sad because we are never together. I want our wedding day to be perfect. It would be an honor to wear that dress for my husband-to-be.
Gretchen N., 32, Ocala, Fla.

Dancing the Two-Step

In high school, I competed in gymnastics and was an NCAA All-American cheerleader. I was then diagnosed with myoclonic epilepsy, which affects balance and coordination. Since being afflicted, I have not ridden a bike or even been able to run, let alone perform gymnastics. Some days it is even hard to walk. However, I have stayed positive, never letting anything stop me from achieving my goals.

Three years ago, I met a wonderful man. We have experienced nothing but joy together and two weeks ago he proposed! I often coax him into dancing in the living room after dinner. All I can manage is a simple two-step, but neither of us care.

I do wish that at our wedding I could manage a few more moves. I dream of being able to dance with him like they do in the movies.
Amy C., 23, Staten Island

Teen’s Fairytale Gift to mom

I’m 14 years old. I would love to win this couture dress for my mom. I’m a good student and even if my parents don’t get married in a church with a big fancy host, I would really love to see my mom in the fairy tale dress she deserves.

My mom is a great person. She works very hard to give me and my brother the best life and she would do anything for us and my dad.

Who knows, maybe when it’s my turn to get married I will get to use the same wedding dress she will get married in. It’ll be a great Christmas present and she won’t even see it coming!!
Rolangie P., 14

Baby on Board

I would like to enter my best friend, my soul mate, the light of my life: Nuala. We had been in the process of planning our wedding when we received the unexpected news that we would be blessed with a child. We decided that we [should] do something very simple (Town Hall and a weekend getaway) and save and prepare for the baby.

We are currently planning a more formal, simple church ceremony with friends and family on our first anniversary, March 27. Nuala always puts everyone else’s needs/desires before her own. She deserves so much more than she ever receives.

I would love to make our special day more spectacular for her if she could wear that beautiful dress when she finally gets to walk down the aisle
Kevin F., 35, Douglaston, Queens

Wedding DJ spins Happy End

A few years ago I was in Kesha’s situation — my heart was crushed right before my wedding. I thought I would never get over the heartache and embarrassment of calling everyone and telling them it was canceled. What made it worse is that I am a wedding DJ, and the next day I had to do a bridal show in the same room I was to be married in and talk to 200 brides about how great getting married is!

After the heartache, I am now right where I am supposed to be. I am with my perfect partner and our life is simple and simply perfect. We got engaged this past Saturday! I would love to wear your wedding gown and give it the happy ending that it deserves!
Danielle B., Wappingers Falls, NY

An Angel’s Second Chance

When I was 24, my boyfriend of three years proposed, but six months before our wedding, I found out he was married with a 2-year-old son!

Four years ago, I was in a car accident. Some girl went through a red light going 65 mph in a 25 mph zone while talking on her cellphone. Nothing happened to her, but doctors said I would be disabled for life. My boyfriend broke up with me because I wasn’t “perfect.”

In March, an aquaintance introduced me to his son, Keith. Five months later I was shocked and surprised when he proposed on my 43rd birthday. Keith picked a ring with a “halo setting” because he says I’m his angel. He thinks I am perfect just the way I am! I’ve been working my butt off at physical therapy so that I can walk down the aisle and dance at my wedding.
Michelle F., 43, Middletown, NJ

Dancing Through Life

I was raised by my single mother who worked three jobs, received no child support and still managed to put me through private school. I have danced since I was two and loved it more than anything.

When I was14, my mother lost her job. She told me I had to choose between dance and school because she could not afford both anymore. I knew my education was more important, so I chose to leave dance.

A year later, I wrote an essay explaining why I deserve a scholarship. Because of that I was able to return to dance! A few years later I left dance for good to focus on college. Now I am a registered nurse, getting married on Nov. 31 and attending an alumni class at my old dance school! I am so happy!
Danielle P., Sayreville, NJ

Hard-knock Life

My life is not extravagant by any means. I grew up in a bad neighborhood in a bad part of Queens in a bad family situation. My father was incarcerated when I was five, and was still in prison by the time I left for college. My mother, on Social Security and chronically sick, did her best to provide for me.

Many of my childhood memories involve visiting my father in various penitentiaries. That alone strengthened my determination to have a successful life.

I worked diligently through high school and college, earning a BM in 2008, thanks to many scholarships. Exactly one month ago, my best friend and boyfriend proposed and I was thrilled to accept. Our wedding is May 29, 2010.

We don’t know how we’ll have enough money for a wedding, but we’re both working hard and saving all we can to make our dreams come true.
Jesssica V., TBA, TBA

Starting from Scratch

When my father was laid off from his job, I had to work two jobs and pay my way through college. After graduating, securing a job and an apartment with the love of my life for five years, we were kicked out of our apartment by a slumlord and forced to live with friends.

We had to use our entire wedding savings as a down payment on a cooperative apartment. So here we are starting from scratch. Wearing your dress will allow me to dance into the best part of my life in a gown I could only ever dream of.
Ashley Wimes, 25, Flushing, Queens

Firehouse Romance

When I was in my early 20s, I thought I had found love. However, the reality was that I found that those closest to you can hurt you the most. One of the activities that I threw myself into was becoming a volunteer EMT in my local fire department, and that’s where I found the best thing that ever happened to me.

He is a firefighter and has worked with me for the past six years. He, too, had his own bumpy journey, and we both agreed we are the happiest we have ever been or even could have imagined. I can’t imagine life without him. I often scoffed when people talked about “soul mates,” but now I understand what they were talking about. He proposed last Tuesday and I said yes.
Rosmaria S., 38, TBA