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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

We've probably all known or heard about a bride who went overboard,

who lost perspective and became impossible in the run up to her wedding.

Reality television is full of bride zillas, but at Craig Bridger's wedding, the tables were turned.

Here's John Cho. He plays Hikaru Sulu in the most recent Star Trek reboot,

reading Craig's essay, Men Don't Care About Weddings, groom zilla is hurt.

I'm not the type of guy who would want a plan of wedding.

I would rather play Xbox than watch, say yes to the dress.

I don't know if I'm a fall or a summer.

I decorated our bathroom with a framed Batman comic book,

but I found myself engaged to a wonderful woman who is so overbooked and so chronically late

that she has her own time zone. We call it terror time.

I knew I had to step up if I wanted to make it down the aisle.

And when I did, something unrecognizable began to stir inside me.

Everyone knows about bride zilla, the toothy creature in a wedding dress

whose apocalyptic meltdown sent bystanders running for cover.

But I'm here to tell you there is a far more terrible beast lurking in the matrimonial jungle.

Fear him for he is among us.

His name is groom zilla.

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