COLUMN: First-time father of the bride gets the jitters

Editor’s Note: It’s nearly summer and with its arrival comes wedding season, when a new flock of brides and grooms head down the aisle hoping that love will conquer all. In five days, our commentator Michael Jonathan Grinfeld will perform the timeworn duties of a father of the bride for the first time. He’s going to share that experience in a series of columns, promising with as much insight and humor as he can muster to help those Columbia residents who may be about to experience the same challenge. If you’ve got your own ideas and suggestions, he says he’d love to hear them. “They may not help, but they couldn’t hurt.”