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200 10$aCinderella dreams$b[electronic resource] $ethe allure of the lavish wedding /$fCele C. Otnes, Elizabeth H. Pleck
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (401 p.)
225 1 $aLife passages ;$v2
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-363) and index.
327   $aRomance, magic, memory, and perfection --$tThe rise of the lavish wedding --$tThe engagement complex --$tThe rituals of wedding shopping --$tThe wedding weekend --$tFrom the cabin to Cancun --$tHollywood hosts a wedding --$tThe lavish wedding goes global --$tVariations on a theme --$tThe allure of the lavish wedding.
330   $aThe fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection-or reproduction-of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.
410  0$aLife passages ;$v2.
606   $aWeddings
606   $aWeddings in popular culture
606   $aConsumer behavior
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aWeddings.
615  0$aWeddings in popular culture.
615  0$aConsumer behavior.
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