ALTARED(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　“Darkly funny ruminations on getting hitched.”
–People
　　“Refreshingly unsentimental.” –O, The Oprah
Magazine

Original essays by Top Women Writers
Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _
Elizabeth Crane 
Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer
Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _
Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _ Farah L. Miller _ Gina Zucker
_ Kathleen Hughes _ Jacquelyn Mitchard _ Ruth Davis Konigsberg _
Lori Leibovich _ Julie Powell _ Jill Eisenstadt _ Anne Carle _
Amanda Eyre Ward _ Amy Bloom _ Dani Shapiro
Anyone who is intimated by the prospect of planning a wedding will
laugh out loud and take solace in Altared. In this unexpected,
heartwarming, thought-provoking collection, more than two dozen of
our most perceptive and entertaining writers offer a wide range of
takes on the modern wedding.  It’s all here. Fantasies.
Realities. Fond memories. A few regrets. From planning it to doing
it and everything in between.

Colleen Curran was engaged for three years before she planned
her own wedding. Fearful of the process and confused by what it
meant to plan a wedding, she set out to find out how other women
view weddings today. Her stories have been published in places like
Jane and The Dictionary of Failed Relationships.
Whores on the Hill was her debut novel and is available from
Vintage Books. She married her fiancé this past summer, after
beginning work on this anthology, and is now happily married in
Richmond, Virginia where she lives and works.

Introduction | Colleen Curran

Taking the Vow
The Child Bride (and Groom) |
Julianna Baggott
The Wedding Vow | Curtis Sittenfeld
Diana, Martha, and Me | Catherine Ingrassia

The Dress
One Day | Elizabeth Crane
The Girl, the Dress, and the Leap | Lara
Vapnyar
Back in Black | Lisa Carver

Plans & Preparations
There Went the Bride |
Carina Chocano
My Bridal Meltdown | Rory Evans
The Best-Laid Wedding Plans | Jennifer
Armstrong

Etiquette & Registry
Manners and the Marrying Girl
| Elise Mac Adam
The Registry Strikes Back | Janelle Brown

Weddings & the Single Girl
It All Started with
Princess Di | Daisy de Villeneuve
The Honor of My Presence | Meghan Daum

Family & Budget
Parental Control | Amy
Sohn
My Perfect Wedding | Samina Ali
Going Bridal | Farah L. Miller
My Mother’s Wedding, Myself | Gina Zucker
Father of the Bride | Kathleen Hughes

Getting Hitched
First, Reader, I Made Him Up, and Then
I Married Him | Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Second Trimester | Ruth Davis Konigsberg
My So-Called Indie Wedding | Lori Leibovich
Weddings Aren’t Just for Straight People Anymore | Anne
Carle
Rubber Chicken | Julie Powell
To Have or Have Not: Sex on the Wedding Night | Jill
Eisenstadt

For Better or for Worse?
Survivor Honeymoon |
Amanda Eyre Ward
Weddings for Everyone | Amy Bloom
Happily Ever After | Dani Shapiro

Contributors
Acknowledgments