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MARRIED NAMES Marriage is a changing institution, but most brides are still traditionalists when it comes to names. A survey by Bride's Magazine found that 8 of 10 brides are planning to take the surname of their new husband. The percentage of women keeping their own name or hyphenating has stayed relatively stable. But a growing (if small) number of couples are choosing to have the husband take his wife's name or creating a new family name by combining letters from both names. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...them to disperse to countries where they could form sleeper cells without arousing suspicions. With their native Saudi Arabia on high alert for returning terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, Morocco was a natural choice for Al Tbaiti and Alissiri: Both had married Moroccan women. Al Tbaiti's young bride, as it turned out, had been killed in Tora Bora...
Margorie Engel, author of Weddings: A Family Affair (Wilshire Publications), says that couples need to establish who their primary parents are, who will walk the bride down the aisle, who will be seated where during the ceremony, and who will pay--before they announce their engagement. Engel suggests that the primary parents should be those the bride lived with the longest and feels closest to, whether they are biological parents or stepparents. Some brides choose to walk down the aisle with stepfathers, while birth fathers are seated in the second or third row of the church, along with other family...
Engel points out that the structure of weddings--a ceremony followed by a reception--actually lends itself well to complicated families. If the mother and stepfather of the bride play hosts at the ceremony, the father and stepmother can be hosts at the reception. (Whoever pays for the reception is the host; that person's name along with his or her spouse's appears at the top of the invitation.) At the reception, each parent should be host at a table. Siblings of the bride and groom should also be hosts of their own tables, so they don't have...
...sorry you feel that way, but it's your choice to not come if you don't want.'" Etiquette dictates that invited family members be allowed to bring a spouse or guest of their choosing to the wedding, whether or not others in the family--including the bride--approve of that person. All of these decisions have to be handled calmly and well by the couple because the first rule of marriage is this: If you can set the right precedents on your wedding day, then it will be possible to celebrate life's other important events and keep...