Now magazines like Modern Bride feature his work.
The Wild Bride (2011) featured a dad who sold his daughter to the devil and maimed her in more than one way.
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride also features a memorable hypocrite: Zenia, who ingratiates herself into the lives of three "friends" and then wreaks emotional devastation on that trio of women.
The August/September issue of Brides features a dreamy Ciara on the cover, smiling sweetly with a simple white rose bouquet.
But first, another detour, for what must surely be one of the most touching cameos in the history of abandoned brides, featuring the lovely, aptly named Eve Fairfax, who played, it was said, "an aggressive game of croquet".
Written and narrated by Reagan's adman Hal Riney, it featured a bride on her wedding day, a family in a new home, and the purple light of dawn breaking over the U.S. Capitol.
It also features a bride who survived the bombing of a wedding hall in Amman in Jordan, a man who lost his son in a massive car bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, and another who survived a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Kuwait.
In January, a video was posted to Google -owned YouTube that featured a bride-to-be panicking about her new hairdo and cutting it off the night before her wedding.
My logic, informed by a combination of college guidebooks and the alma maters of the brides featured in the Times wedding announcements, went something like this: Columbia rather than N.Y.U., Wisconsin rather than Texas, Yale rather than Harvard, Vassar rather than Smith.
This current adaptation of "Seven Brides" features new orchestrations (Tom Helm is the spirited music director), spectacular settings of a pine-forested, snowy-peaked Oregon Territory, circa 1850, designed by Anna Louizos and lighted beautifully by Donald Holder, and charming, homespun period costumes by Jess Goldstein.
Design Visage, a Newport Beach business near John Wayne Airport, was selected to style 21 of the 50 brides featured in the series.
