Cinderella Dreams
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Cinderella Dreams

The Allure of the Lavish Wedding

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Cinderella Dreams

The Allure of the Lavish Wedding

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The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture—romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection—or reproduction—of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780520937505
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Romance, Magic, Memory, and Perfection
  6. 2. The Rise of the Lavish Wedding
  7. 3. The Engagement Complex
  8. 4. The Rituals of Wedding Shopping
  9. 5. The Wedding Weekend
  10. 6. From the Cabin to CancĂșn
  11. 7. Hollywood Hosts a Wedding
  12. 8. The Lavish Wedding Goes Global
  13. 9. Variations on a Theme
  14. 10. Luxury, Lavishness, and Love
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index