THE WEDDING PLANNER
As rich as it gets
• The Wedding Planner's Web log
By Tanya Bricking
Advertiser Staff Writer
Monday, Oct. 13, 2003
I just finished my Monday-morning ritual of reading The New York Times' Sunday "Vows" feature online.
The Times usually profiles a rich or highly connected couple having some kind of fabulous wedding.
I don't know if it fulfills a voyeuristic fantasy of peeking into someone else's life, but it's addicting. I've been a fan for years, even after weekends of bad dates or no dates at all.
Sometimes, though, the Vows feature just makes me roll my eyes.
Excerpt from this week's story:
"At the reception, the bride, in a Vera Wang gown the bright white color of a nearly full October moon, danced with her husband around a five-tier cake topped by a buttercream-frosted replica of the Capitol dome."
Vera Wang gown? Five-tier cake?
La-di-da.
My gown, a bargain-basement find by the non-designer designer Venus, must be on the slow boat to Hawai'i. I even paid the "rush" fee, but it's not here yet. I still have a few weeks before I'll start to panic.
As for the cake, we're going to have a three-tier, plain-old vanilla variety, accompanied by a chocolate groom's cake decorated like my groom's military squadron flag. (Hey, at least it's not in the shape of a deer or armadillo or something.)
My mom reports that her favorite Midwestern discount store, Meijer, has an entire wedding section with just about everything — runners, invitation kits, pens, serving sets, trellises, lights, you name it.
She found organza bags and wants to know if I'd like her to fill them with heart-shaped rice that's safe for birds and biodegradable. Now there's something I haven't read about in The New York Times: eco-friendly wedding rice.
In my shabby-chic world, this is as rich as it gets: My nephew in Kentucky has been carrying around a pot holder practicing to be "ring boy," and my niece has been rehearsing her role as flower girl with dying flowers I sent as a birthday bouquet weeks ago.
To me, that's picture-perfect enough.
Tanya Bricking writes about relationships for The Advertiser. Reach her at tbricking@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8026.
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