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A Call to Arms.(body figure)(Viewpoint essay)
A Call to Arms
Accepting your flaws and imperfections isn't easy when everyone around you keeps pointing them out -- as one woman discovered. By Ayelet Waldman
i never expected to be married in a bridal gown. I figured I'd be barefoot in a meadow, the ragged lace of my Mexican wedding dress trailing through the dew-drenched grass. I explained all this to my future mother-in-law when she asked me if she could go wedding-dress shopping with me, but she begged me to indulge her. "Think of us as anthropologists," she said. "We're not buying; we're exploring." For our foray into the bizarre tribal practices of the species known as the American bride, we ...
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