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Today she is one of the top three bridal designers at Saks and a favorite of celebrities like Julia Roberts, who wore Aberra in the movie Runaway Bride, and Salma Hayek, for whom Aberra has designed evening gowns. "The bridal business tends to be very traditional, and she has worked toward moving it forward, yet still keeping her dresses elegant and sophisticated," says Joseph Boitano, Saks' general merchandise manager...
Shrek didn't remake fairy tales single-handed; it captured, and monetized, a long-simmering cultural trend. TV's Fractured Fairy Tales parodied Grimm classics, as have movies like The Princess Bride and Ever After and the books on which Shrek and Wicked were based. And highbrow postmodern and feminist writers, such as Donald Barthelme and Angela Carter, Robert Coover and Margaret Atwood, used the raw material of fairy stories to subvert traditions of storytelling that were as ingrained in us as breathing or to critique social messages that their readers had been fed along with their strained peas...
...ticket for an iPod raffle. After the hour-long wedding ceremony and tea ceremony were recreated, and their respective cultural aspects explained through translation by Lee, an iPod shuffle was randomly awarded to an audience member. The ceremony ended in accordance with Korean tradition, with the groom giving the bride a piggyback as they pretended to enter into their new life together. “The big thing to remember was when to bow,” said Otto. “That was really all we had to learn on our own.” —Staff...
...dinner rather than a proper reception, as men and women are permitted to have meals in one another's company. But without music, these gatherings also end up being solemn affairs that don't include some traditional rites of an Iranian wedding, like the "knife dance," in which the bride must retrieve a blade from the partygoers in order to cut the cake...
Inside, the atmosphere was more like an expensive tea party than a wedding. For an hour, the female guests just stared at one another's jewelry. Shortly before dinner, my husband messaged to inform me that the men's side had a stand-up comic. So unfair. Even the bride looked dejected, arms folded tightly across her designer gown. After the sumptuous meal, intended to lighten the misery (it didn't), the guests eagerly filed out to look for their men. "I'm not sure what's worse," a friend mused on the way out, "having a fun mixed wedding...