Article: Planning the Perfect Bachelorette Party

We were in a swimming pool when she popped the question. Secretly I had been hoping and waiting for her to ask me, but I couldn't be sure she thought I was The One.

Alison Comfort, the woman with whom I had shared the last five years of my life, asked me to be her maid of honor.

I said yes, absolutely yes.

That was the easy part. Now, with the wedding less than nine months away, I have to plan the shower, her present, ways to make the wedding day special, and, if I am to follow the new standard for our generation, the bachelorette barty.

According to the companies fertilized by "Sex and the City"-fied visions of womanhood, demand for pre-wedding, all-female parties has never been higher. In ...

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