Destination: Honeymoon

Destination: Honeymoon

Less than 10 minutes after leaving the airport on St. Lucia, I pulled up to the Coconut Bay Resort. Within 15, I headed to the beach, cocktail in hand. St. Lucia was a destination I longed to see but knew little about. I found out a lot after a few days of exploring...
Old and New

Old and New

Though no ceremony is so steeped in mythology, tradition or superstition as a wedding, and no wedding-related accoutrement has the particular significance of a ring, I had to wrack my brain for pertinent references to wedding rings. The examples I came up with at...
When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

The union of two people has been a universal tradition dating back tens of thousands of years—we have always been a race that accomplishes the most through compromise and cooperation, though these things are never easy. Still, every day multitudes of us choose...
Brides in Party Hats

Brides in Party Hats

The rehearsal dinner scene is often pretty stale, an affair, perhaps, staged in some long-lost hotel “function room.” The family members file in, grab plates and head to a steaming side table full of chicken with the texture of hockey pucks, fainting green...