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On AlterNet: weddings

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "weddings"

The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets Have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan

The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets Have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. July 15, 2008.
We have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offering nary an apology.

The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets Have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan

The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets Have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. July 15, 2008.
We have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offering nary an apology.

Why Brides-to-Be Are Starving Themselves Skinny

Why Brides-to-Be Are Starving Themselves Skinny

Allison Gaudet Yarrow, Women's eNews. July 15, 2008.
A multi-billion-dollar wedding industry peddles the perfection myth more intensely than ever before.

Media Climate Pushes Brides to Say 'I Do' to Lavish Wedding Spending

Media Climate Pushes Brides to Say 'I Do' to Lavish Wedding Spending

Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews. August 6, 2007.
Wedding costs have doubled in 20 years and lavish destination weddings are up five-fold from a decade ago. The bridal media are courting women to consent to fantasy-land spending.

Wedding Trashers: Why Brides Are Destroying Their Dresses

Wedding Trashers: Why Brides Are Destroying Their Dresses

Izzy Grinspan, Salon. July 5, 2007.
In a kind of rebellion against America's wedding mania, an increasing number of brides are trashing their dresses and having photographers capture these moments of rage.

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding

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.