NEWLYWEDS : NOT-SO-PRIVATE SPRINGSTEEN LIFE

It’s really been a busy week for Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Springsteen.

Their candlelight wedding was solemnized early Monday in a Catholic church at Lake Oswego, Ore. The informal reception--a late-night bash at the Oswego Country Club--took place Tuesday night. The traditional champagne-and-cake reception hosted by the bride’s parents started at noon Wednesday in the home of a friend of the bride’s family. And the couple reportedly left the reception in a van about 4 p.m. for a motoring honeymoon to Southern California.

Sometime before leaving the reception, however, they managed to slip away to a nearby meadow for what they thought were private moments. Such was not quite the case.