Word: brides
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...Nashville—a mere hour and a half from Downer’s home. She grew up in Grand Rapids, Mich., where the wedding will take place this July 7. “It is what I’ve always wanted,” says the bride-to-be. “A traditional wedding in a big white church with a steeple.” The couple plan to move to Quantico, Va., where Wesley will find a new job and Downer will attend the Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School. “He?...
...wants a Cuban cigar, he doesn't need to know you've anticipated his request by at least a month to get it through local customs," says Palacoeur, who lists among his triumphs securing a submarine for an underwater wedding in which the groom was a diver but the bride was not. "That was the deepest kiss I ever saw!" 156 98730, Bora Bora, French Polynesia; tel. + 689 607 630; jerome.palacoeur@ interconti.pf
...religion that won't let a bride's nonmember relatives attend a wedding--as happened when the Romneys married--is a little weird. Mormons have other strange customs they don't publicize, but just ask an ex-Mormon, and he or she will be glad to enlighten you. Would I vote for a Mormon? I doubt...
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...