Word: grooming
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...have a traditional, Christmas-themed wedding, though Vittori’s brother will be on her side of the party with her roommate and best friend as bridesmaids, while Hetrick’s female best friend will be the best (wo)man. The Rev. James Savage, who supported the groom-to-be during his confirmation, will celebrate the Mass. The tuba and clarinet players, who met through their involvement with the Harvard University Band, began dating after a year of friendship. Before embarking on a relationship, they talked about their goals in life and realized the many similarities. He proposed...
...Among the most pertinent facts are that the intended wedding was a mixed marriage, a Jewish groom and a Lutheran bride, vehemently opposed by both sets of parents, a proposed marriage which the couple claimed already to have been secretly performed...and a marriage not supported by the rabbi involved,” Crout wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...would like to see Serbia turn away from Europe and towards Moscow. The recognition of Kosovo by many European Union members, said Energy Minister Aleksander Popovic in a recent interview, could sour Serbs on the idea of joining the EU any time soon. Popovic likened the situation to a groom discovering something unsavory about his betrothed on the eve of marriage. "What do you do then?" he asked...
...owner of Cake Divas in Los Angeles, says she was used to baking cakes for "people's second, third and even fourth weddings" but has recently been getting orders for confections to mark the end of marriages as well. The designs feature scenarios like a bride kicking her former groom down the tiers of the cake. At Sprinkles Custom Cakes in Winter Park, Fla., Larry Bach has been getting requests for his upside-down wedding cake with the bride or groom's legs sticking out at the bottom as if the cake had crashed down on the figure...
...rational shoppers looking for the best available mate. Unsentimental social scientists and veterans of the singles scene know that this world is not entirely unlike our own. People shop for the most desirable person who will accept them, and that is why most marriages pair a bride and a groom of roughly equal desirability. The 10s marry the 10s, the 9s marry the 9s and so on. That is exactly what should happen in a marketplace where you want the best price you can get (the other person) for the goods you're offering...