Does everybody love a wedding? So fraught these days. Divorce statistics. Wedding industry spend-a-thons. Marriage inequality. Let’s pause for some imaginary festivities. Because it’s June, because we can. Imagine a very young bride, doting parents, all archetypes intact. She’ll shop for a dress with her mom, the dresses lined up and ready to rustle. Settling on [...]
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Last Sunday I attended Susan and Martin’s wedding. Here’s the happy couple. It was a lovely day. Everyone got California fancy. Men donned jackets, women their dresses, some wore hats. The sun shone. Wisteria bloomed, bees buzzed, and Susan and Martin said loving vows on their front porch. The assembly smiled and cried. It seems [...]
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Surely you suspect that someone you know, perhaps your sister, or your daughter, or niece, might get engaged this Christmas. Maybe it’s something you’re thinking about yourself. If so, please, now, today, go order my friend Meg’s book on Amazon. Meg writes the blog A Practical Wedding. I’ve guest posted over there a couple of [...]
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As you know, the state of New York recently voted to allow legal same sex marriage. I am very happy, and want to get the word out for an upcoming celebratory event. Meg Keene, over at A Practical Wedding, is helping to host a dance party on August 25th, for 200 people, in New York [...]
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25 or 30 years I ago I attended a wedding on a New Jersey farm. The land had been in the bride’s family for generations, and was replete with corn fields and hay bales. The groom was the brother of a man I hoped anxiously to marry. He would eventually propose, and I would accept, [...]
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It’s June. For the next handful of Saturdays, couples all around the Western Hemisphere will be getting married.* If you’re attending a wedding, presents are de rigeur. What, I’ve been asked, do High WASPs give? We follow our leader, Count Appropriate, who tells us Context Is All. A High WASP-approved wedding present is one that [...]
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A week ago today, at the end of that night, I went to find my brother and his new wife to say goodbye. They pulled me over to the photo booth and gave me a kiss. I had put on my black sweater and black tights and flats from earlier in the day. Sturdy Gals [...]
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The wedding was wonderful. Thursday night my mother and stepfather hosted dinner at the Foreign Cinema in San Francisco. Just immediate family, about 25 people. I asked my stepmother to take my picture so I could keep my promise to you all. Full disclosure? I took out my frown lines. Yes I did. When I [...]
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Thursday my mother and stepfather hosted a dinner for immediate families, at the Foreign Cinema restaurant in San Francisco. The setting and flowers were gorgeous. Friday my father and stepmother hosted a rehearsal dinner at their house, for the families and out-of-town guests. Also beautiful. My father read a poem. Particularly relevant as my brother [...]
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I’m done. Here are the last two items I’ve picked up for my brother’s wedding. An Alexis Bittar cuff, purchased during the week he gave 100% of sales to the Japan Tsunami and Earthquake relief. Lucite, turquoise, and accompanying sparkle. Safari Dust, Bittar calls it. How appropriate. I didn’t mind paying for Lucite when the [...]
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