If, and when, their big day comes, it could be an expensive business covering the cost of hotels, caterers, photographers and florists, not to mention clothes, rings and a honeymoon.
However, during the retrograde, when people are especially careless and mistake-prone, there is a higher propensity to lose important items such as money, clothes, rings or other valuables.
Enter your number, hit the "Hello?" button, and then run around the house in hopes of hearing even that faint, under-a-pile-of-clothes ring before it cuts over to voicemail.
For example, "In Stone" begins: Their clothes; their rings as well, until at last they wore nothing.
Her cleaning money also paid for all the things her daughter believed she'd be a pariah without — brand-name sneakers and clothes, class rings, prom dresses.
Here, the new-born baby is oiled and dressed in new clothes and rings and then named; a feast follows this ceremony.
The list includes not just uniforms and winter coats but three duffel bags' worth of clothing, including separate outfits for the opening and closing ceremonies, workout clothes, a commemorative ring and a special uniform for standing on the medals podium.
Tiny details (like having Lionel buy his girlfriend a coat at the defunct store I. Magnin, or having Lionel's rich, matronly wife wear clothes from Ann Taylor) ring false, and so do the author's ham-handed efforts to portray these characters' relationships to the world of work and politics.
Meanwhile, Ellison sees his wife's body in the morgue, and gets upset that her clothes and wedding ring have been removed.
When Asunta grew out of her clothes, her mother rang around friends with smaller daughters.
