The author Cate Doty's grandmother's wedding in 1984 in Raleigh, North Carolina. “When I set out to write this book, I didn’t know it was going to be a memoir,” says the writer Cate Doty. A former Weddings reporter for the New York Times who still remembers trying on her mother’s gown and veil as a kid growing up in North Carolina, Doty has long been fascinated by weddings and marriage customs. Her new, personal, sometimes biting and often hilarious book, Oh my God, who are these people? But as I was going through so much personal turmoil, it was like an outlet, a way to understand the world at a very specific moment in time.”