Where’s My Rose Garden Celebration?

Kate Stone Lombardi
3 min readOct 9, 2020
Photo credit: Alex Brandon, Associated Press

From a distance, doesn’t this look a little like a wedding to you?

The rows of chairs in a garden setting. The two sides — bride’s and groom’s. A man and a woman standing in front of the assembled guests. (Not to say that all weddings are between men and women, although with the future Supreme Court who knows…?) The pretty white flowers everywhere. Photographers and videographers on the side. Everyone…

--

--

Kate Stone Lombardi

Journalist/author. Contributor NYT 20+ years. Also WSJ, Time.com, GH, AARP, more. Author: Mama’s Boy Myth (Penguin/Avery 2012). Cook. Besotted grandmother.