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“Weddings are funny affairs—tense, expensive, fraught with emotion,” writes Xochitl Gonzalez, an Atlantic employees author who was as soon as a luxury-wedding planner. “They are revisited—by the couple, by the family, by the person paying the bills—time and again. They mark the beginning of a couple’s new life but sometimes of other things too: family feuds, broken friendships, a long hangover of fiscal regret.”
Weddings have at all times been luxurious items, Gonzalez explains, however “wedding envy” kicked into excessive gear with the rise of TheKnot.com within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. “The Knot created a community; it made being a bride an identity. And it transformed weddings into a competitive sport,” Gonzalez writes.
You’re most likely accustomed to among the outcomes of this shift: engagement photographs taken before everything with Instagram in thoughts; an onslaught of wedding ceremony merch reminiscent of personally branded bottle openers or sun shades; lavish affairs that appear to go on eternally. In honor of wedding ceremony season, we’re utilizing in the present day’s e-newsletter to consider the enjoyment, the drama, and the surplus of weddings within the twenty first century.
On Weddings
The Wedding Trend Couples Love and Guests Hate
By Kelly Conaboy
Why do newlyweds appear to suppose individuals need customized wedding ceremony merch taking over house in cupboards and drawers for years to return?
By Xochitl Gonzalez
The work of a luxury-wedding planner is just partly concerning the planning.
By Annie Midori Atherton
Proposal events. Extended bachelor and bachelorette weekends. Multiple honeymoons. Modern marriage celebrations can really feel infinite.
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In her article about wedding ceremony merch, Kelly Conaboy is confronted with the dilemma of what to supply visitors at her personal wedding ceremony. “I don’t want to spend money contributing to a landfill, or foist items on my friends and family that they’ll keep only out of guilt,” she writes. “But, you know, I’m just so excited about commemorating the day. I guess I’m leaning toward either a life-size cardboard cutout of myself or a framed copy of this article, signed by me.”
— Isabel