Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, 40, was saying that "any day now" he would marry longtime Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27, who is seven months pregnant. Then last week the groom-to-be, or not-to-be, made that a question again. "Marriage?" Jagger asked reporters, while vacationing with his love on Barbados. "Definitely not. It gives me claustrophobia...
...Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only...
...look forward to, is it?" 1947: Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town, Chur. The groom was a Lithuanian prince-handsome Igor Troubetzkoy...
Beyond the aesthetics of the thing, writing one's own ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...
...bride and groom have intimacies to whisper, there are private places for that. A wedding is public business. That is the point of it. The couple are not merely marrying one another. They are joining the enterprise of the human race. They are, at least in part, submitting themselves to the larger logics of life, to the survival of the community, to life itself. They enter into a contract with processes deeper than they can know. At the moment of their binding, they should subsume their egos into that larger business within which their small lyricisms become tinny and exhibitionistic...