April and Ryan are Gettin' Hitched

I'm writing a column about all this for The Oregonian. The second installment ran today.

By Ryan White

Regrettably, none of the books in Borders' wedding-planning section feature football players, motorcycles or Eddie Van Halen on their covers.

Instead, there are rows of pastels -- blue and pink and yellow. It's like looking at Don Johnson's "Miami Vice" wardrobe, minus the shoulder holster.

Since getting engaged in August, I've gotten one piece of advice over and over again: Stay out of the way. Which is hard. Clearly, I needed a book, and if a guy's going to buy one book about wedding planning, it might as well be the one with the testimonial from a supermodel.

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