Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (Life Passages, 2)
by Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth H. Pleck

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Book Review: Fascinating and entertaining, scholarly but never dull
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Summary of Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (Life Passages, 2)

With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection--or reproduction--of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.

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