"In the '60s, you got engaged in the fall and had a spring or summer wedding, " Fisher said.

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Philip Treacy, the Irish milliner responsible for many of the hats worn at this summer's royal wedding, presented an invite-only poolside runway show celebrating Bentley's new Continental GTC.

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This is how I whiled away one long summer night at a wedding reception on the Baltic coast of Sweden: hearing toasts, crooning local drinking songs and draining a profusion of little nips bottles of something called snaps (which is pronounced "schnahps, " but is very different from dessert-like schnapps).

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Sweden this summer will stage its second royal wedding in three years.

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She started the first wedding planning firm in 1993, Very Truly Yours, after meeting a wedding planner in New Jersey and taking a summer course on the subject at Columbia University.

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That's what happened to IFC's "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when it opened in April 2002 and ran all summer long, a huge hit.

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