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June wedding belles

Planning the perfect wedding can turn the most even-tempered fiancée into a “Bridezilla.” Luckily, there’s plenty of help at the newsstand to avert a pre-nuptial meltdown.

British import You & Your Wedding wisely lists its 41-article lineup in encyclopedia fashion, i.e., “Fabulous At Any Age,” which chronicles weddings for any age group, and “Care to Dance?” which helps the happy couple find the right tunes as well as master the right moves. It’s so useful that you might want to hold onto the issue for your next wedding in case this one doesn’t work out.

What was Brides thinking by featuring New Orleans as a locale for a destination wedding? The humidity can be punishing. Fortunately there are tips to prevent hair from frizzing. Looking to throw a wedding under $5,000? Meet the couple who did just that, feeding guests hot dogs and soda and having a rope tug-of-war for entertainment.

Real Simple Weddings suggests couples lay out the details of the wedding and ask: “Would you like to pay for the cake instead of a gift?” While it may be the guide that everyone should read before the big day, it’s light on romance.

Martha Stewart Weddings has a perfectly Martha idea: farm-stand baskets of fresh berries as part of the place settings. It may be too late for weddings this month, but a good idea for any lawn party.

The New Yorker streams its fiction into a sci-fi theme for this week’s double issue, with contributions from Ray Bradbury and Junot Diaz. Noteworthy is Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box,” about beautiful women and rich men.

New York has a fascinating piece titled, “How Gross Are Your Flip-Flops?” Warning: you won’t want to read this while catching lunch in Bryant Park.

Time’s cover story, “How to Die,” by Joe Klein, is something we’re going to gloss right over. We’re more interested in Joel Stein’s dissection of the Mark Zuckerberg-Priscilla Chan “relationship agreement,” stipulating he must spend 100 minutes of out-of-office time with her per week. Stein admits to thinking about his marriage, though his stipulations involve sex while his wife wants to turn off devices and read books. Their compromise: a bi-weekly date night.

It’s royals time at In other Facebook news: Time looks at six start-ups on the path to IPO and suggests way to avoid a botched public offering. Don’t miss the graphic cartoon entitled, “How to Joe Biden Work a Rope Line,” with shoulder pulls, headbumps, neck grabs and hand holding.Newsweek, which opines on the Queen of England and the King of Silicon Valley. Queen Elizabeth is very much up to the job, according to editrix Tina Brown, but Dan Lyons questions whether Zuck has what it takes to run a company bigger than General Motors and Ford combined.