In media representation of the wedding, the dress has special status. In fact, even though the focus is ostensibly on the bride, much of the attention is actually lavished on the dress itself. Choosing the dress is an experience often likened (in the media) to finding true love. In bridal salons, finding the dress is [...]
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There’s a new podcast up on the site (see the left side bar). It’s called Wedding Vendors and Consumer Brides and is a short (about 3 minutes or so) riff on the content of the wedding planning podcasts put up by wedding vendors.
Check the References page to see which podcasts served as inspiration.
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Entertainment media offers us images of life that feed back into our culture and shape our expectation of what is acceptable, normal, and desirable (Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 2002). Therefore, examining how movies and television shows portray weddings can offer insight into the fantasies that underlie the wedding as a social event (Engstrom, 2008). [...]
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If you’ll direct your attention to the Podcast feed on the left sidebar, you will see a new podcast, entitled “Cultivating the Wedding.” It’s about 2 minutes long (120 seconds) and is my attempt at analyzing the media’s penchant for telling stories about women’s dream weddings.
To find the sources of the materials I used for [...]
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This is the TIME magazine cover (February 27, 1995) mentioned in the previous post (Marriage = Wedding?); it was chosen to illustrate the topic of “strengthening marriages” (click on the image to go to the TIME Cover Archive).
While the accompanying articles are about marriages (Gleick, 1995; Van Biema, 1995), the primary association this cover image [...]
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What are the elements of a classic American dream wedding? What images come to mind when you hear those magic words: white wedding?
Here is one take on some of the elements that a dream wedding should include. See how many you recognize:
If you’ve spent even a year living in the U.S., [...]
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