Rachel Boston of NBC's 'American Dreams' Reveals What Moves Her Most as a 1960s Bride in the May/June Celebrity Style Issue of BRIDE'S Magazine CONDE NAST BRIDE MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE CELEBRITY STYLE COVER (PRNewsFoto)

BRIDE'S May/June Cover Model Dates a Drummer in a Rock Band and Says She's Too Young to Be Engaged - a Far Cry From Her Betrothed TV Role

NEW YORK, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BRIDE'S current cover model, actress Rachel Boston, says she is most touched by the impact she has on women today who can relate to her TV character as a wartime bride on NBC's Emmy-winning drama American Dreams. Boston says "it is easy to forget that so many people have loved ones very far away" and with many brides-to-be who have a future spouse deployed over seas (or are deployed themselves), Boston says "you realize how relevant the whole show [American Dreams] is today.

The 21-year-old Boston tells BRIDE'S that planning a wedding as a girl would forty years ago is much different than what her TV character, Beth Mason, even wants for her own wedding. Boston says that with women's roles being rewritten in the sixties, there is a difference in who calls the shots.

She adds, "On the show, my family's idea of a wedding is very different from mine and [my fianci]." Boston also says that at her TV character's college, there is frequent talk about being engaged, which she believes was the norm back then because women made marital commitments at such a young age.

And how did it feel for Boston to step out of character for a while and dress up as a contemporary bride? "I loved it!" says Boston. "Everywhere I go nowadays, people try to put me in sixties stuff. And I have to remind them that I live in the year 2004, too!"

Boston says she may have freaked out her real-life boyfriend, Third Eye Blind drummer Brad Hargreaves while "doing her homework" flipping through several issues of BRIDE'S magazine. However, she says her mother had a different idea about the photo shoot, "My mom [said] 'It would be so much easier if you could just pick out your wedding dress now, while you're there trying them on.'"

For more information visit www.brides.com.