Show The Herald Journal Logan Gtah Friday June 14 2002 — Altar Continued from A1 turns out that there’s actually a race to the altar Because although getting married is important getting married before your best friend gets married is even more important One girl I know found out her best friend was setting married in six months time 4U of a sudden in less than a week her own rather apathetic boyfriend had proposed the wedding date had been set and the invitations were in the ’ : whose own daughter is still ' single or engaged to someone ' with a lower salary Consider too the proud parents especially the parents of the bride with their smiles beaming for miles: They’re so happy so proud of their little girl Exceptitoccurs to me that this isn’t pride — it’s relief! There’s so much pettiness ' involved with weddings — especially with the gins of money Tire question always comes up afterwards: Did they give enough? “What? That’s all they gave? That doesn’t even cover our cost of having them at die wedding!” Or maybe it was too much: have to give their son $500 when he gets married?” There’s a simple solution: The next time you plan a wed- ding just sell tickets to die darned thing! It may sound cynical but it seems as though sometimes people get married more for die wedding than for the mar- - $5007 Does dial mean we lywed couple fresh from a — $25000 wedding at parties: She walks intpthe room he walks out of the room she walks out of the room he walks into the room But it was a lovely wed- ding She became pregnant right away Why? For the baby shower In contrast to all of this cost a total of$50 1 hul- - Julia Gorin is a stand-u- o resolved vt “ i r mail Then diem’s all die painstaking attention to detail involved in the planning process Usually die greater : part of a year goes into deciding on just the right color of napkin on the shape of die napkin that the tablecloth should match the napkin and that the bridesmaids should match die table Yet for all die pained planning there’s never any good dessert at weddings For me the whole payoff to suffering through anyone’s wedding is dessert And oh the way the bride and groom make their rounds to die guests acting like gracious celebrities toward peo-pi-e they’ve spent most of their lives complaining about My friend Natasha got married and every woman she’s been for die past IS years was three Nine of diem were bridesmaids Now this was a Russian-immigra- nt wedding and at these one can always spot die bride getting an evil eye from some relative ng Continued finom AJ died ihstandy The horse reportedly suffered no signifi- cant injuries Cannon a Utah State University student originally from Shelley Idaho was reported missing about 7:30 pm Wednesday by a roommate The roommate told police he last saw Cannon about 9 am Tuesday as he was leaving to go horseback riding Williamson said “Apparently he went up to Clarkston and took off from there” Williamson said “frii- dally nobody knew where he went” Originally Cannon told his roommate thgt he wiu going for ahorsebackride butfailed to mention where he was going riding and when he’d be back A police search began later Wednesday night in and around Logan for Cannon’s truck It was found at 11 am Thursday in Clarkston by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper Williamson said' “His truck was located on die north side of die city square” Williamson said “As we started checking around with the residents in Clark- ston (it appears) he was (last) seen riding his horse to foe west toward the mountains about lOTuesdaymorning” members of the Twenty-tw-o Cache County search and res- - '! cue and mounted posse began looking for Cannon Thursday morning “About 7:30 this (Thursday) y morning is when we got noti- fied” Williamson said “First off we met wifo the family Snd got as much information: as we could There’s noprob- ferns or no indication of u)y kind of problem wifo the guy v " (Cannon)” Searchers also borrowed : g airplanes from Utah State University and a Life Flight helicopter tosfcany' ' thearea1 “That’s sonie y pretty ruggbd terrain in those mountains' northwest of ClarkstonV ' Williamson said ‘ ! v fixed-win- ' ''"'fy'Ji Williamson saiddie search causira astir1 among some Ckhe Valley residents V vi V “Apparently the public has beed calling in a lot to (police) dispatch concerned that this is part of foe Elizabeth Smart deal" Williamson stdd nuh '' - hadabsohrtftlvnnriiinv fnifa “‘miuig “Tt WltniL ' Yv 1 i'"1 InUioieldaehe VNyl v- - f ' - id Sunder IHVU DVtonri tocHoiw Shop Mondvy BrtunHy tM end South TowneCwlw ln Ogden alNewgflilW lnfroVeMVrowe Towne Centre In St George el Hed CWfeWL ' vliMlcBinvyowDnMJOimOMitThvAinvrlMnEipiiMfCwdLOInvwgublniswiMlonvtMMlwcvwgVlMfviid'ThvDlvcowrCvie " SeS UMdlyMhihlooMwe All ' comic |