Hints and tips:
...“Press for” buttons that allow guests to order from the table are also fun, but avoid the obvious “Press for champagne”, he says: “One six-year-old bridesmaid at a Niemierko wedding had a ‘Press for Oreo...
...Finally, for touch-ups on the day: Lisa Eldridge’s mini make-up bag (£48) in Liberty-print peaches and pinks is perfect – just fill with essentials, and bestow on a willing bridesmaid....
...More life lessons abound, chiefly: don’t go to work in your bridesmaid’s dress, and try not to eat your hearing aid by mistake. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Zerlina and her bridesmaids are dressed in bright pink as short-skirted cowgirls; Masetto and his stag-night male chums wear antlers....
...Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Underperforming Standard Chartered has long been the subject of takeover speculation....
...At one point, with bridesmaids and pageboys running riot, Lubomirski had to beg the late Queen Elizabeth’s pardon for running late....
...Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is a longtime supporter of Aquazzura; and wore a pair of white pumps with blue soles at her wedding reception (the bridesmaids sported Mary-Jane flats by the brand)....
...Schoolchildren in gold costumes, colour-coordinated bridesmaids outside Kigali’s Radisson Blu hotel, the meeting of Rwanda’s new young hopes and its bright capitalist dream....
...For some couples, their own children are first choice to act as bridesmaids and pages....
...Celery is the eternal sidekick, always a bridesmaid, the last one to get picked on the crudité plate. It is probably the least exciting item on your shopping list. Yet it’s always there....
...Pop culture is stuffed with wedding guest and bridesmaid tropes but the latter in particular offers no help on this front: lilac off-the-shoulder mermaid dresses, like the one Julia Roberts wears in My Best...
...“Don’t be afraid to go for a big puff sleeve, feathers or a bit of sparkle – but ideally not something that the bridesmaids are going to start scowling at you for wearing.”...
...McCarthy plays Lilly, a supermarket worker whose husband Jack (fellow Bridesmaids alumnus Chris O’Dowd) is in a mental care home following the cot death of their baby daughter....
...The movie is the brainchild of stars Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, co-writers of the celebrated Bridesmaids. That collaboration won them an Oscar nomination....
The Bridesmaids director, actor and filmmaker needs no excuse to unleash his inner dandy
...At one, the bridesmaids’ dresses were colour coded according to their degree of intimacy with the bride. Try it post-lockdown: gold is for absolute best friends only....
...The reclusive novelist and Nobel bridesmaid Don DeLillo carries a business card that says “I don’t want to talk about it”. My life would be enhanced with a batch that says “No, I haven’t seen it.”...
...“We eventually tracked it back to the mother of one of her bridesmaids.”...
...Nonetheless, always the bridesmaid, never the bride at the FCA. Interim CEOs rarely if ever get the top job. And importantly, Mr Woolard is not ex-Treasury. Mr Rathi is....
...Cohen — a life-long lover of Laura Ashley — couldn’t find bridesmaid dresses she liked for her own wedding....
...ad’s success paved the way for Cutex to remind women that “at every move of your hands – your nails are conspicuous”; and for Listerine, in 1923, to warn that bad breath was a reason for being “often a bridesmaid...
...When Meghan did so, one tabloid yelled that the flower posed a fatal risk to her bridesmaids. The list goes on. The pettiness is appalling. Is this evidence of racism, or dislike of a pushy American?...
...Hogan Lovells has appeared consistently in the top 10 of the FT’s annual rankings in Europe and Asia as well as North America but until now it was always a bridesmaid, never the bride....
...McColl’s, Ted Baker and Works are its retail M&A target picks, with “perpetual bridesmaid” 888 Holdings flagged in the leisure sector. Phew....
Exhausted bridesmaids, ridiculous cakes: photographers and writers shed light on our most hopeful ritual
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