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