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Wedding planners and consultants are noting a trend, and several online and in-store bridal registries have recorded an uptick in disengagements. At Bloomingdale's, would-be brides and grooms often "postpone" their registry rather than attend to the unpleasant errand of canceling. Such postponements are up 15% in the past two years, according to Morgan Childs, Bloomingdale's bridal consultant in New York City. WeddingChannel.com a popular online registry, counted 5% to 10% of its wedding registries "deactivated" last year. Erin Howlett-Avci, a former assistant registry director at Michael C. Fina in New York City, recalls that...
...left her feeling depressed and guilty. She had dismissed warning signs of trouble as pre-wedding jitters. "When my fiance broke up with me in June, I was in shock." Fear and guilt prey on both parties, no matter who initiates the breakup. Sheryl Paul, a Los Angeles-based "bridal counselor" and author of the forthcoming The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner (New Harbinger), says that in the past year more clients have approached her with qualms--typically six months before the wedding, when they're "in the midst of freaking out"--and that more than 5% ultimately reverse gears...
...friends and family are also often the best supporters in the aftermath. According to wedding consultant Sharon Naylor, some almost brides are throwing "broken-engagement" showers in lieu of bridal showers, in which guests offer the ex-bride gift certificates for spa treatments and celebrate her independence and courage. When his fiance opted out five weeks before their March 2003 wedding, Michael Manning, 32, a Denver-based marketer, nonetheless held a bachelor party. Friends and family with nonreturnable plane tickets came to a "She Loves Me Not" bowling bash. "What else was I going to do on my wedding night...
...lengths to ensure that Nava was properly launched in her new status, compiling a booklet for her of rabbinical sayings, family aphorisms and his own thoughts about relationships and marriage. But he was determined to fit in one more chat with his oldest girl before she stepped beneath the bridal huppah. He had said she was the only one of his six children to whom he had never had to raise his voice--the challenge now was getting a hearing in the midst of the prenuptial frenzy...
...never dated each other but did become the other's fall-back escort to formal functions and work picnics. Within 24 hours of her engagement to Walton Smith, a fellow Brown alumnus, Augenblick asked Eddy to be in her bridal party. "He's my friend. He's my guy," she explains. So in June of 2001 Eddy ended up next to the bridesmaids, wearing a tie that coordinated with their dresses. "Walt didn't bat an eyelash," Augenblick insists. "He's not the jealous type, and there are no questions about the nature of my friendship with R.P. Besides...