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Moreover, the hoopla of wedding planning, even if not of Bennifer proportions, often ushers in the jitters. Millie Martini Bratten, editor in chief at Bride's, calls wedding planning "boot camp" for marriage. "You realize that even though you've been living together, you may not have discussed all the fundamentals you need to work out before getting married," she says. "All these questions arise during the planning process that bring up deeper issues: Do we have the same attitudes toward money? How do we face problems? Do we know how to argue and resolve differences...
...would spoil the atmosphere. "If I got married where I grew up, people would have come just to glare at each other," Lowe says. With rehearsal dinner and postwedding brunch the new norm, brides and grooms today spend as long as four days with their guests, says Millie Martini Bratten, editor in chief of Bride's magazine. "People live such busy lives that to have a wedding where everyone flies in from across the country and arrives at 4 p.m., only to leave by midnight, doesn't make sense," explains Mary Ellen Murphy, a destination-wedding planner based in Yountville...