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| Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (Life Passages, 2) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth H. Pleck
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 399
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0520240081
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780520240087
Publication Date: October 17, 2003
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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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Fascinating and entertaining, scholarly but never dull January 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Scholarly but never dull, this fascinating chronicle of the changes in the American wedding over the past century reveals the extent to which so many of our wedding "traditions" are actually fairly recent inventions -- lifted straight from the movies, or foisted upon us by the many industries that profit from the lavish wedding. Though the authors approach their task as researchers and seem to have no particular ax to grind, readers who feel that the opulence of the American wedding has spiraled out of control will likely find plenty of support here for making a change.
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