{"id":413,"date":"2005-09-30T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T19:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_groom_is_a_big_part_of_the_wedding_everything_in_perspective.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:07:53","slug":"the_groom_is_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_groom_is_a.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Groom Is A Big Part Of The Wedding&#8221;: Everything In Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post, stating the obvious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/53273.htm\">pits self-centered brides-to-be against the Yankees<\/a> as the big season-ending series versus the Red Sox begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They might be tying the knot this weekend, but thanks to the Yankee series, they&#8217;re fit to be tied.<\/p>\n<p>Couples planning to say &#8220;I do&#8221; are anxiously waiting to see if their guests \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and even their potential spouses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will play ball this weekend and focus on the nuptials rather than baseball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what, people? It&#8217;s my wedding,&#8221; said Kerry Kramer, 29, a graphic designer from Darien, Conn., who has already been asked by a few guests if televisions will be at her reception hall tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your focus is in the wrong department. It&#8217;s all about me,&#8221; said Kramer, who will wed Artie Koellmer, of Greenwich.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, some brides are holding out hope &#8212; hope against hope! &#8212; that their grooms will be fully engaged during the big day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Grace Lombardi&#8217;s husband, Keeth Fiocco, refused to have a late October wedding, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not when it&#8217;s the playoffs,&#8221; Lombardi remembered him saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we get married Oct. 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not knowing that this weekend would be the most important,&#8221; said Lombardi, a customer-service rep from Massapequa, L.I.<\/p>\n<p>Lombardi, 26, will walk down the aisle tomorrow afternoon in a strapless, beaded, off-white gown purchased from Kleinfeld Bridal, and she&#8217;s confident Fiocco will be at the end of the aisle on time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The groom is a big part of the wedding,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be into the wedding \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but he&#8217;ll want his updates.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post, stating the obvious, pits self-centered brides-to-be against the Yankees as the big season-ending series versus the Red Sox begins: They might be tying the knot this weekend, but thanks to the Yankee series, they&#8217;re fit to be tied. Couples planning to say &#8220;I do&#8221; are anxiously waiting to see if their guests \u00e2\u20ac\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}