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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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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