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...adventure means buying a non-rent-controlled apartment or arriving to visit friends in Connecticut at five a.m. They’re known to break with tradition in daring ways. “Pamela is the family rebel,” a family friend said of one bride I read about. “Everybody in the Holmes family has to go to Harvard. Pamela actually applied to Yale. She ended up going to Harvard, but she showed spunk.” The audacity...
These pod people tend to value mates who share their love of outdoor leisure sports. One bride issued the ultimatum: “For me, whoever I dated had to ski. No ski, no me.” Another said, “Growing up, my sister and I always said we'd never marry anyone who couldn’t beat us in tennis.” In the best part of the section, Lois Smith Brady’s “Vows” column, grooms’ polo-playing abilities are regularly vaunted beyond belief...
There was also a time sophomore year when our costume designer quit one week before the Bartered Bride was to open. I tried my best to pick up needle and thread, but one of the other producers ended up not sleeping for several days so our singers could on reasonably clothed. The things we do for art around here...
...menorah on the pair's Tiffany registry, found by Gawker.com The couple also asks for a $595 alarm clock--and some modest domestic items from Williams-Sonoma. We assume the $10 meat tenderizer will get snapped up by Shanian's clan, not by father of the bride, producer Aaron Spelling. He's already given the groom roles on two TV shows...
...concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: give little, give seldom, and above all give grudgingly." --RUTH SMYTHERS, Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride...