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Seems the veil is coming off. Whether the bride decides she's too young, the bridegroom realizes he's not ready, or both agree they're just not meant to be a couple, the would-be wedded are coming out with their premarital fears and grievances. In chat rooms on--of all places--wedding websites, the topic is fretted over and hotly debated. TheKnot.com the mother-in-law of all wedding sites with more than 2 million visitors a month, includes articles like "Calling It Off: Real Brides, Real Reasons," amid more registry-friendly fare. Message boards on Indiebride.com...
...Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan ... Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before. The prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player ... The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they did not get together again until two weeks...
...around onstage as in Jerry Springer--The Opera. The musical version of the sleazoid TV talk show is filled with big people with big hair wailing about their big problems. A portly fellow with a luminous tenor confesses that he is cheating on his wife with a transsexual. A bridegroom-to-be strips off his clothes to reveal a diaper fetish. A sluttish young woman battles with her mother over her aspiration to become a pole dancer. Running commentary is provided by a studio audience in the heavenly tones of a Bach choir; the crudest of insults are spewed...
...Rwandan tradition, if a boy meets a girl and decides he loves her, he finds her father, and negotiations begin. It is called an inkwano--the price a prospective bridegroom must pay the bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed...
...best interest of my natural teeth, and as I needed those pearlies to bite the bullet that I knew was heading for me, I put on a black tie like a noose, and went. When they snuffed the lights, I squinted at the stage and hoped like a bridegroom on the big night that it would be worth...