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| One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding | 
 enlarge | Author: Rebecca Mead
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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 Hypocrisy May 17, 2007
13 out of 111 found this review helpful
The hypocrisy of Ms. Mead does not escape me. If she were truly doing such a service for the would-be bride, then why isn't this tome online as a free read?
While well written, the author fails in one crucial task: Context.
Of course, providing true context and accurate reporting is not the goal of Ms. Mead, obviously. She has set her sights on her agenda, and turned a blind eye (or incompetently failed to see) the underlying causes of what she reports.
For example, she discusses 3 speakers at a Videographer's Convention in Las Vegas, conveniently nit picking quotes that support her agenda. "Double your prices" being one of them. What she fails to mention, (or, I suspect even to research) is why the speaker would even say that. If Ms. Mead had, then it would be realized that most videographers are undercharging to begin with. Most are not business people first, and are not charging enough to sustain a business. In more than one analysis, the majority of videographers in this country do not even make minimum wage for their services.
Equally biased, she also neglects to even mention any of the other 2 dozen plus seminars being held, especially the ones that are designed to increase the skill set of the attendee, thereby increasing the quality of their craft. She even anonymously quotes a photographer's online lament that is at least a decade out of date about videographer's "20,000 watt light" - Yeah, okay... Maybe in 1988.
This is just plain shoddy reporting.
The author assumes the American Bride is a stoopid little girl that doesn't know how to utter the word "no." A supposition I'm guessing she and her publisher are banking on.
 Maybe a little sanity will return to weddings... May 15, 2007
84 out of 86 found this review helpful
I'm not married but I've been to 5-6 weddings a year the past few years and am in 2 this June. I have been totally flabbergasted that so many of my friends -- very thoughtful and unconventional in every other aspect -- swallow the most meaningless consumerist drivel when it comes to their weddings. I'm a professional designer and out of all those weddings, I can't remember a single bridesmaid's hairstyle, a single centerpiece, or what any of the cakes looked or tasted like. I'll never eat a wedding dinner that's as well-prepared as any of the San Francisco restaurants that I frequent, and some of the best wedding food I've had was mostly purchased from the Whole Foods deli -- around $1,000 instead of $10,000. What I remember and enjoy is the ceremony and the symbolism of two people getting married, and the fun of celebrating afterwards with friends and family. The fact that my girlfriends spend months and tens of thousands of dollars agonizing over useless stuff completely astounds me. I don't understand why everyone gets so neurotic about it!
What I liked about Mead's book is that she does not seem to be writing from within the dominant paradigm: she doesn't take it for granted that a meaningful wedding requires matching bridesmaid hairstyles or that it's a daring, hand-wringing proposition to (gasp!) let members of the wedding party choose their own shoes. I suppose that I find so much of what brides worry about to be utter nonsense, and I wish there were more voices (besides from the fabulously stodgy Miss Manners) that did not assume that the only way to properly symbolize a marriage is with $10,000 of floral arrangements.
This book is not comforting. The author's tone is dry and you can tell from the language she uses that much of the industry seems over the top to her. She doesn't seem to have a lot of sympathy for the sentimentalism of weddings -- which I think is a well-needed attitude, since so much of the uselessly expensive garbage of the wedding industry is sold using manufactured sentiment. ("But it's the MOST important DAY of your LIFE and of COURSE you NEED custom-printed M&Ms! Because how else will your friends and loved ones know what this day MEANS to you?")
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