Reverend Starshine Reporting for Duty Only two men have ever seriously asked me to marry them, and I said yes to both. One was my husband,…
Writer & Columnist • Santa Barbara, CA
Reverend Starshine Reporting for Duty Only two men have ever seriously asked me to marry them, and I said yes to both. One was my husband,…
Tradition deems that a bride should give a few gifts on her wedding day. She might give jewelry to her bridesmaids and chocolates to her guests. She might bestow a monogrammed hankie on her mother, and will likely present her groom with a little sumpn special back at the hotel ifyouknowwhatimsayin.
But here’s a nuptial-day trinket you don’t often see a bride offer up in 2015: a note from her gynecologist to her father avowing that her hymen is thoroughly, virtuously intact. A Maryland bride did just that recently, posing with her dad, a big ole virginal grin, and a physician-signed “certificate of purity.”
Let’s review: Her wedding. Her gyno. Her father. Her hymen. The situation is wrong on so many levels. Here are just four of them.
Feature story on extravagant weddings for Destination Wine Country magazine.