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...unseasonal nuptial rush has more to do with finance than with passion. To cut some $1.7 billion from the estimated 1988 budget deficit of $8.7 billion, the country's coalition Socialist-conservative government is not only slashing some formerly sacrosanct social benefits but, as of January 1988, dropping the $1,350 wedding bonus that Austrian couples were traditionally given to help them get started in married life...
...rocks? Is reconciliation suddenly sweeping the country? Harris claims that many experts looked at the stats too hastily. The National Center for Health Statistics, for example, reported that in 1981 there were 2.4 million * marriages and 1.2 million divorces. Many misinterpreted those figures to mean that half of all nuptial knots untie...
...face of Chinese takeover. Rinpoche spent two years in India, then four in England at Oxford University, then moved on to Scotland to found a meditation center. In 1969, he relinquished his monastic vows. The next year, he married a 16-year-old Englishwoman, Diana Judith Pybus. The nuptial move drew criticism from lama quarters...
...Saturday afternoon service at the simple clapboard Our Lady of Victory Church was completely Catholic and performed by two priests, although there was no nuptial Mass. Caroline, dressed in a white silk organza gown with cloverleaf appliques designed by Carolina Herrera, arrived in a white limousine with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, who helped her with her train and patted her back encouragingly before they entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best...
There is no gloom at Kleinfeld's, however, or anywhere else in the wedding industry. Everyone, in fact, seems downright delirious--from the usual near- frantic nuptial logistics and from unconcealed fiscal rapture. In 1985, according to Bride's magazine, which takes proprietary pride in such things, the industry raked in $10.9 billion (including money spent on gifts and other wedding bounty), up 43% in the past decade. Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel has seen a 20% increase in its wedding business over the past five years. Many couples are opting for "weekend weddings": multi-event affairs that stretch...