Following the stunning success of 8 Simple Rules for
Dating My Teenage Daughter
-- which was adapted into a TV show for ABC -- W. Bruce
Cameron returns
with an even more hilarious look at fatherhood, capturing the
predicament of the forgotten man in the tux at his little girl's
wedding.
As Cameron explains, modern weddings are much
like royal
coronations, only more expensive. Aside from the writing of
checks,
there is not much fathers understand about them. Why can't
guests
successfully eat, drink, and dance unless the whole event is as
carefully choreographed as a Broadway production? With his
characteristic wit, Cameron captures the aspects of the
wedding that
are the most ridiculous to paternal eyes, for
example:
• why the wedding needs a theme (this one
is "We're all stressed out")
• why the wedding
has to be photographed as if it will be reviewed by the
Warren Commission
• why the bouquet must
include a species of flower found only at the tip of the
Himalayas
•
why the wedding dress has to strike the right mood (which,
judging from
everyone's behavior, might best be summed up as
"crabby")
Throughout
it all, however, a father keeps faith that the wedding -- if
not the
wedding preparation -- will make his daughter a happy
woman.
Hilarious yet poignant, 8 Simple Rules for
Marrying My Daughter is sure to be a comfort to the
legions of fathers (and mothers) who will one day have a
daughter walking down the aisle.
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