Marianne Rohrlich, photos by Joan Roth

The Wedding Dress Whisperer and Me

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Screen Shot 2017-06-20 at 3.04.07 PM As a newspaper reporter, I have spent my life speaking to successful people who make and shake in many fields. But one of the most charismatic of these was in one of the least likely places: a small mirror-lined dressing room tucked into the back of Kleinfeld Bridal on West 20th Street in Manhattan, the bastion of the latest in wedding-dress fashion.

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The Wedding Dress Whisperer and Me

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