Unless Hurricane Irene plays wedding crasher, DrHGuy and Duchess of Durham are scheduled to marry tomorrow with the just reverend enough Duke of Derm officiating. Consequently, the DrHGuy blog will be on hiatus for the next 5-7 days, after which new posts will again begin appearing here, still working for your smile. As a parting gesture, DrHGuy offers a look at a couple of his wedding presents the Duchess selected from the Leonard Cohen gift registry.

Credit Due Department: Special thanks and gratitude are owed and hereby proffered to Kezban Washington, Leonard Cohen’s Assistant, who went far beyond her job description in colluding with the Duchess to assure that these autographs were executed, prepared, packaged, and shipped in timely fashion, extending in the process courtesy and warmth.

More than 70 percent of brides-to-be want to lose weight before their wedding day … .To reach the perfect wedding-day weight, more than one-third of them use extreme dieting tactics such as diet pills and fasting

Bridezillas on a Diet - New York Times Blog Stats are based on a Cornell study, published online from a forthcoming issue of the journal Appetite, that  surveyed 272 engaged women. There’s more.  91 percent of the women were worried about their weight, reporting that they wanted to lose weight or were actively trying to prevent weight gain. By comparison, national data show that about 62 percent of similarly aged women have the same concerns. Among the 70 percent of women who were trying to lose weight, the average desired loss was about 21 pounds, not counting three women in the group who were trying to lose more than 100 pounds each.