One of the most recent trends is these celebrities showcasing their luxurious, and expensive weddings on national T.V. For their adoring fans to admire and be jealous of. According to Ingraham, "using the power celebrities hold as the embodiment of fantasy to authorize particular social behaviors and beliefs, the visual media demonstrate where the margin of acceptability begins and ends" (Ingraham 113). The wedding industry taps into America's fascination with celebrities to help reshape their sales pitch to those average people who could never afford such lavish celebrations. Watching these weddings on T.V. make many soon to be brides want to overspend and go far beyond their means in order to try to reenact their favorite star's wedding. One of the most lavish, and utterly ridiculous, nationally televised weddings was last years union of Kim Kardashian to basketball player Kris Humphries. Although the marriage itself only lasted 72 days, the wedding reportedly cost millions of dollars. The emphasis here was not the love between Kardashian and Humphries,...
Rather, the emphasis was on the bling, the luxury -- everything that the wedding industry likes to shove down the throats of average brides and grooms without such big pockets. The two-part wedding extravaganza enthralled thousands, and made E! millions in advertising revenues and sponsorships. This is a clear example of the commercialization of the white wedding, and how American celebrities only fuel the fire.
How is the white wedding (think of the dress and so much more) constructed in American Culture? What does it mean- what does this wedding symbolize? How does the construction of the wedding differ for men and women? For same sex couples? The white wedding, and the significance of an elaborate wedding that symbolizes purity, is a relatively recent cultural development, but one which has spawned an entire industry. Even women
WEDDING White Gown The white wedding dress: Showcasing the (commoditized) body The wedding dress as body-dominant or body-subordinate "The 'traditional' or lavish wedding denotes a religious setting, a bride dressed in a long, white gown, a multi-tiered white cake, abundant flowers, attendants in matching finery, a reception, and a honeymoon and is the dominant form in much of global culture today" (Iovan et al. 2011:29). A critical component of this festivity is finding the
Who are those that have bandaged eyes and ears? In line 93 he wants again to touch a white page with the "Five ears of my fingertips"; fingertips mean he wants to touch the white but the fingertips don't hear anything. It is fascinating that so many images of White are part of this poem and yet the search goes on -- which some may believe is a search
Weddings by Alice Web Site Evaluation This paper reviews a wedding planner's website, Weddings by Alice, located at this URL: http://www.weddingsbyalice.com/. The review covers architecture as well as design elements, including site organization, navigation, page layout, and graphic content. Our analysis also discusses effective design principles, and we cite examples where they were followed and where they were not. Throughout the paper we make a series of suggestions for improvement.
Ancient Jewish Weddings Weddings in Ancient Jewish Custom There is an example of a wedding feast from the gospel of Luke that is not of the famous Cana Wedding Feast that takes place at the beginning of Jesus' ministry, but a gathering in the house of a Pharisee. The Pharisees and scribes invited Jesus there because, as always they were trying to test Him. It was on the Sabbath, and there had
FairyTale Long ago and far away there lived a girl named Victoria. She and her poor parents lived in a cottage, in a beautiful valley. Close to them there was an enchanted forest. The girl would wake up early in the morning and go into the forest to fetch the wood for the fire. She would gather mushrooms and pick flowers and sing, both because she loved to sing but
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