Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sudbury, Mass., he and his four ushers were suited up in pastel tuxes by Miami Vice for After Six. Scott even gave his ushers Ray-Ban Wayfarers to complete the image. But, of course, no one is much interested in the bridegroom's plumage. This is the bride's day to be resplendent, assuming that the unthinkable has not happened, and her gown has not arrived late. Philip Youtie offers a stirring evocation of the pressures under which he and all his colleagues labor: "The ambulance, he gets there whenever. The man with the funeral car can come late...
Nowadays the bride almost always wears white, no matter how many times she has been down the aisle. Anne Barge of Atlanta, who went into upscale bridal consultancy after designing a gown for former Georgia Governor George Busbee's daughter Beth, notes that satin and silk-satin blends are the most popular fabrics at the moment. "Organza is out, out, out," she says. "But tulle touches are coming back." Priscilla Kidder believes, "The girls went into ivory tones when the dresses their mothers had put away turned ivory from age. But wedding gowns themselves haven't changed. The most popular...
...gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom greeted reception guests from a bejeweled white velvet sleigh custom-made by the bride's father. Cost of the festivities, including a 250- lb. wedding cake shaped into a replica of Red Square...
Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...
Financial pressures can be formidable for anyone, of course. Free-lance Saxophonist Art Bressler, who has worked a number of weddings in the New York City area, remembers best the one where the bride's father reached into his pocket to pay the bill and came up empty. Later, watching a videotape of their reception, the newlyweds discovered what had happened: they could see the bridegroom's father reaching into the bride's father's pocket and lifting his roll of cash. The debts eventually got paid but, Bressler reports, the marriage lasted only a month...