Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.
Lifting the veil -- The wedding-industrial complex -- Romancing the clone: the white wedding -- Four weddings and an industry: popular film and television weddings -- And they lived happily ever after ...
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This volume goes behind the veil to question the meaning of weddings in American popular culture. Ingraham investigates the underside of the recession-proof wedding industry, exposing how they are used to sell a heterosexual fairy tale.