Bridge with two Cisco AP's

Hello Everyone,
So I have a scenario here and I’m wondering if this plan I have will work flawlessly or is there anything I have to lookout for?
So I'm going to bridge two Cisco AP's 1260 and 3500, which have an 880 router on each side.
(Currently I have a VPN set-up through the internet for the two locations to communicate)
(Naturally they are currently in different subnets)
Will absolutely change this and set up as one subnet.
There is VLANs setup on each router (same VLANs)
VLAN 1
And
VLAN 10
Everything is configured on the Routers and AP's for these VLANs (works flawlessly over the VPN).
So now since I’m going to get rid of the VPN and set-up a bridge with two AP's, will having same VLANs across both routers be a problem?
Will VLANs work OK through the bridge?
Besides using (IP helper address DHCP-IP) command on the non-root bridge side router to forward DHCP requests to the root bridge side router,
Is there anything else I have to consider?
Also I want to be able to route internet traffic on the non-root bridge side through the WAN port, and only route LAN traffic through the bridge...
Will I have to use Access list for this?
Sorry everyone...
I know this is a lot I'm throwing out there...
Thanks in Advance
Regards,
Ed

Also, if the IP Helper command is used to relay DHCP request to the root bridge side router.....
will the VLAN settings (trunks) on non-root bridge side router work ok since I will need to remove the DHCP pools configured there...... Or is it a better idea to keep it there and just exclude addressees that are available to the other side, and vice versa???
I say this because the non-root bride is also going to serve for wireless clients as well, and has VLANs setup on it so I'm guessing the non-root bridge side router needs the DHCP pools for both VLANs intact, for VLANs to operate correctly.
Please give me your insight on this....

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