I Do. I Did. Now What?: Life After the Wedding Dress

Were Candace Bushnell to chronicle her first year of marriage, it might look something like former New Yorker-about-town Lee's frank, witty account of coming to terms with what matrimony really means. When the sparkles on her engagement ring have dimmed, the Vera Wang has been packed for posterity and the words ""until death do us part"" have begun to sink in, Lee confronts her ""glass-slipper fantasy"" of marriage. Reality, she discovers, requires a great deal of sacrifice (moving to frumpy Boston), compromise, (sharing her exorbitantly expensive shampoo) and adjustment (grappling with putting on the ""newlywed nineteen""). From cooking to nagging, from cleaning to fiscal responsibility (""I learned the hard way that my husband doesn't consider a Neiman Marcus last-call shoe sale an emergency"") and from the art of couple socializing back to nagging again, Lee's anecdotes from the post-honeymoon period go from very amusing to a bit stale by the book's close. Luckily, though, by then Lee has learned to appreciate those subtle yet intimate ""happily-ever-after"" moments, which is an important lesson for detail-obsessed brides destined for disillusionment in the wake of all the nuptial hoopla. And to the bridesmaids who will purchase this book as a send-off, take comfort: now Bridezilla has someone else to bug.