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Vanities
Marriage à la Mode
Vanities
Marriage à la Mode
Marriage à la Mode
Even Hogarth would have been hard put to capture all the social nuances when Whitney Tower, Jr. (of the Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Tower bloodlines), married Pamela Courtney Franzheim (whose father owns much of Louisiana). Old-fashioned rituals were mixed with more modem Manhattan habits: a boozy Prima Donna bachelor party; a sweaty Area party; a deshabille penthouse schmooze; a black-tie Racquet Club rehearsal dinner; a hurried St. Bartholomew's ceremony; a riotous Metropolitan Club reception. The bride's mother dived for the bouquet.
