When planning a wedding , you have control over the guest list, the reception location and nearly every other detail . The one thing you can’t control? The weather. It’s inherently chaotic, and no matter what anyone tells you, it can’t be predicted months in advance. But if you’re determined to hold an outdoor ceremony or reception, the Capital Weather Gang offers this four-step plan: Read full article > >

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Wedding weather: You can’t predict it, but you can prepare

Barring the unforeseen, Adrienne Arsht — one of Washington’s most eclectically connected philanthropists — will ascend to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms on the eighth floor of the U.S. Department of State on Thursday evening. In Georgian and Federal splendor, she and her fellow “Patrons of Diplomacy” will be wined, dined and applauded by Hillary Rodham Clinton for raising $20 million to preserve and promote the finest early art and furnishings of American statecraft. Read full article > >

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At parties and gatherings all around town, there are people you wonder about. It’s the guy who walks into the reception, hair slicked back, very Euro, tanned just enough to suggest a recent stay in Barbados. The woman with the shiny hair who air-kisses half the people in the room. Who are they? Clearly the mystery guests must be important. The question arises because of the apparent uncloaking of Albrecht Gero Muth, known, at least by some Georgetown neighbors, as the much-younger husband of 91-year-old Viola Drath. And now, far less amusingly, known as the man accused by police of killing her. Read full article > >

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For social opportunists, Washington scene offers fertile climate for reinvention

DEAR AMY: My husband and I have been invited to the wedding of a dear friend’s son. I have just learned that a man I dated almost 20 years ago will be at the reception. The handful of times I have seen him over the last 20 years have been cordial. The problem is that my husband is jealous of any man I dated before I met him. I have never given him any reason not to trust me (and he says he does trust me), but I know that if this ex of mine attempts to greet me at the reception, things could get ugly. I know my husband’s emotions about this are immature, but it is what it is. Read full article > >

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Ask Amy: Husband’s jealousy could get ugly

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