"That was one of my early wedding presents to Princess," he said, referring to Ms. Taylor's nickname.
Terry deRoy Gruber, one of the early wedding documentarians, has photographed brides lounging in sweats and bras, and fighting with the zippers on their gowns.
Despite my early wedding experiences, and the more recent ones, I haven't grown up with a strong vision of my own "big day".
"Some have been together for 30 or 40 years, some of them like the symbolism of the early wedding, and there are some couples where it's vital — people who are ill, where a day might make all the difference," Mr. Stevenson said.
One engaged New York City couple just got an awesome early wedding present.
Call it an early wedding present for Mark -- one less user to worry about.
What I did know was that a package, an early wedding gift, had been delivered there for me.
Such an early wedding was very unusual for a junior officer at this period; on average, army officers did not marry until their mid-thirties.
He recalls an earlier family wedding where the Queen Mother kept playing practical jokes and "her eyes were always glistening".
