Welcome! The party theme continues this month, with writer Angela Knight’s roundtable discussion among
wedding experts. While we’re not quite ready to say “post-pandemic,” at least weddings are actually
happening now, so we wanted to find out what’s trending and how much it’s all costing. (In a word:
lots.) This has become personally interesting in our family, as our daughter Anna and her guy, Travis,
got engaged over the summer. What their wedding will entail remains to be seen, but as her dad and
I celebrate our 30th anniversary this year, we consider ourselves living proof that the grandiosity of
the wedding isn’t necessarily predictive of the strength of the union. For our wedding, family and
close friends—50 people, tops—gathered at my sister and late brother-in-law’s house the first Saturday
in December 1992. We partied in the garage—and we’re still going! Also for this issue, writer Sasha Abramsky caught up with a few locals who recently quit their jobs, living examples of The Great Resignation.
