AS READERS OF THIS COLUMN will recall, two weeks ago, I wrote that my nephew Grant C. Eastman II (formerly of Kearsarge) and his bride, Morenike Adetula (formerly of Plantation, Fla.), both now of Cambridge, Mass., were to be wed last weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
That column was penned at the time of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s pending star-studded wedding in London, and I had mentioned that their sure-to-be extravagant royal ceremony would have nothing on Grant and Morenike’s equally regal union.
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