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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "wedding industry"
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Emily Wilson, AlterNet. June 15, 2007.
Pre-World War II, many couples got married in clothes they already owned. Today, they spend thousands. In her new book,
One Perfect Day
, Rebecca Mead shows how the wedding industry became so powerful and who it has exploited in the process.