Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GROOM GETS COLD FEET...
...uproar over the guy who left his intended bride in the lurch [ESSAY, Dec. 8], we must note that this nonevent was not an ordinary wedding. It was a megabuck marriage right up there with a corporate takeover. Perhaps the wayward groom decided that the cost of trading in his Porsche for a Ferrari was too high. Hardly anything to concern the masses. If the jilted wealthy bride really wants to get married, she can run an HEIRESS SEEKS HUSBAND ad, or tour Europe interviewing studs. When she finds the right man, she can mold him into her very...
...decision earlier, and why didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors a wedding. Not for nothing are such ceremonies performed by authority-and-punishment figures in black--clergy, judges. And as a guy contemplates...
...withdrawal, however, the young woman goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star. The contemptible non-groom was holed up in Tahiti, where the honeymoon was to have been. The louse did not get to the beach much, because a cyclone blew up in the Pacific. Nicole's image filled the electronic air--the dancing martyr, the New Woman...
...reactions (She: Castrate! He: High fives, buddy!) did not address practical questions. For example: Is it not infinitely better in the long run (even granting the untidiness of the groom's withdrawal) that Tasos obeyed his existential impulse and fled? Did Prince Charles have a similar impulse on his way to St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981? ("The hell with it, I just can't go through with this!") What if he had left Diana at that altar? No wedding, therefore no years of misery? On the other hand, no Wills and Harry? No bulimia, no "New" Diana? No Dodi...