“Darkly funny ruminations on getting hitched.”
–People

“Refreshingly unsentimental.” –O, The Oprah
Magazine

Original essays by Top Women Writers

Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _
Elizabeth Crane 

Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer
Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _
Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _ Farah L. Miller _ Gina Zucker
_ Kathleen Hughes _ Jacquelyn Mitchard _ Ruth Davis Konigsberg _
Lori Leibovich _ Julie Powell _ Jill Eisenstadt _ Anne Carle _
Amanda Eyre Ward _ Amy Bloom _ Dani Shapiro

Anyone who is intimated by the prospect of planning a wedding will
laugh out loud and take solace in Altared. In this unexpected,
heartwarming, thought-provoking collection, more than two dozen of
our most perceptive and entertaining writers offer a wide range of
takes on the modern wedding.  It's all here. Fantasies.
Realities. Fond memories. A few regrets. From planning it to doing
it and everything in between.

Colleen Curran was engaged for three years before she planned
her own wedding. Fearful of the process and confused by what it
meant to plan a wedding, she set out to find out how other women
view weddings today. Her stories have been published in places like
Jane and The Dictionary of Failed Relationships.
Whores on the Hill was her debut novel and is available from
Vintage Books. She married her fiancé this past summer, after
beginning work on this anthology, and is now happily married in
Richmond, Virginia where she lives and works.