Her lawyer, Howard Stern, was so constantly in the frame that in 2006 she married him, on the catamaran Margaritaville off the Bahamas, before tumbling fetchingly in her white veil into the surf.

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The national survey included 1, 042 workers, who were mostly white, married with children, and in their 40s.

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White and her husband, James, got married in 2011, and she attributes her success to the fact that they told each other the truth.

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He was married in the traditional costume of a camel-rider (although his bride preferred white).

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But her African-American mother and white father had to break the law in 1965 to get married.

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Next day, near the Notre Dame Cathedral (I was beginning to blame the Frenchies for all this), there were dozens of Christmas-card sellers vying for space with bridal couples in absurd white satin dresses and morning suits, who had just been married during the auspicious festive season and were posing interminably for photographs.

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