Tiny Tim tidies tresses for weddingNEW YORK (UPI)-Herbert Buckingham Khaury, commonly known as Tiny Tim, is getting married Wednesday night. God bless us, every one.The marriage ceremony will be brought into the American home by television. The groom will wear a high beaver hat, an Inverness cape, a generally Victorian air and a new hairdo. It will be combed. Tiny Tim's hair, which normally hangs chest-low in stringy likeness to that of the late Russian monk Rasputin, will be groomed for the ceremony by a top beauty consultant, Mark Traynor. It could be the first combing for some time. The bride will wear a Victorian-style gown of off-white peau de soie (French, "skin of silk") with an Empire waist and three-foot train. Victoria May Budinger, commonly known as Vicki-and to the groom as Miss Vicki-will be given away by her father, Allan. ASKED IF HE THOUGHT getting married would hurt his public image, Tiny Tim replied: "No, I'm not a sex symbol like Tom Jones." Was he nervous? "Not as nervous as I'll be tonight. I hope I'm worthy of her. I've got the regular bridegroom nervous feeling." How about children? "I want a big family, as large as heaven will allow. Even 20 will not be too many." The best man will be the singer's manager, Joseph Cappelluzzo. Tiny, after the way of show folk, does not disclose his age. The bride is 17. "His age is a secret-he's around 42," said one man whose educated guess was based on hearing the singer years ago in Greenwich Village. Tiny put his age as 37 on the marriage license application. The ceremony was to take about 15 minutes during the last half-hour of NBC's Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
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