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I would include "The Wedding Merchants" by Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic in Feb 2001. All about how it's not actually traditional for weddings to be the ex
by raldi 7y ago
I would include "The Wedding Merchants" by Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic in Feb 2001.
All about how it's not actually traditional for weddings to be the expensive fancy extravaganzas they are today, and who made them that way and how they did it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-wedding-merchants/302092/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-wed...
- randycupertino 7y agoOh I loved that article! It was helpful in my decision to have a smaller wedding. For one of favorite articles, I nominate this epic profile Tommy Tomlinson wrote in 2014 on college/NFL QB Jared Lorenzen: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/11382220/ex-nfl-qb-jared-lorenzen-lifelong-battle-weight http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/11382220/ex-nfl-... Tomlinson one of my favorite writers, and the article is about Lorenzen's struggles played a role in my own starting to get healthier. So, degrees of separation, but I always felt like some day I'd read an article about Lorenzen making a big transformation. Very sad to realize with news of his passing a few weeks ago that it turned out differently. https://www.nj.com/giants/2019/07/ex-giants-qb-jared-lorenzen-dies-after-battling-myriad-of-health-issues.html https://www.nj.com/giants/2019/07/ex-giants-qb-jared-lorenze...
- mud_dauber 7y agoThis is great. Thank you!
- jumbopapa 7y agoThank you so much. Marriage will be coming up fairly soon in my life and I've been dreading the expense. I hope my girlfriend finds this article as eye-opening as I did. The amount of many spent on a ring, ceremony, and reception have no correlation with our love for each other.
- jumbopapa 7y ago> Feb 2001 It's interesting that this is from 2001. I feel like the problem has gotten even worse since then.