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...families of both bride and groom share the cost of weddings, and they pay dearly. They will lay out $17 billion this year for knot-tying festivities, an astonishing $22,000 per couple, six times the price of the average U.S. ceremony. Posters in Tokyo subways, featuring dainty brides and dapper grooms, offer such cut-rate packages as the "Shining Love" ceremony ($2,500), performed in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's luxe hotels. At the top of the line, however, was the recent marriage of Chiyonofuji, a Grand Champion sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride...
...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
...really worth "lies with the opposite sex." That value was assayed in a series of lifelong flirtations, romantic failures and a doomed marriage to her cousin Bror Blixen. The couple quixotically exchanged Bror's family farm in Denmark for acreage in Kenya. Coffee growing, the young groom announced, was the only thing that had any future. He had wholly discounted his wife's genius...
These ironic, deceptively light pieces touch on everything from weddings ("The quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom") to social philosophy ("Nostalgia is fueled by inflation"). Trillin finds that American satirists live in "constant danger of being blindsided by the truth." His twofold defense against that danger: to reduce large questions to the microscopic (President Reagan named as his Surgeon General a doctor once known as "the Tummy Tuck King of Palm Beach") and to enlarge the trivial to the grotesque ("Am I the only person who favors...
Many polo watchers become addicted. Last Christmas his girlfriend gave Mario Mendoza, 37, a prosperous Cuban-born lawyer, a helmet, mallet and lessons at a polo clinic. "Now," he marvels, "I have seven horses and a groom. I bought a horse trailer and a one-ton truck and five acres of land where I'm building a stable with 24 stalls. Next season I plan to have my own team...