It’s Wedding Time
“It’s Our Day: America’s Love affair with the White Wedding”
By Katherine Jellison
ç 2008, University Press of Kansas
$29.95 = 312 pages
It happens every summer. You know it’s coming, but the swarm surprises you nonetheless.
They show up on your doorstep. On your company bulletin board. Dropping on your kitchen table, begging for attention. They hide as bookmarks in your latest novel; breeding, it seems, like two wire hangers in an otherwise empty closet.
And so how many wedding invitations have you gotten this year?
A bunch, I’ll bet, but why watch yet another white-clad woman walk to her wedding? In the new book “It’s Our Day” by Katherine Jellison, you’ll say “I do” to reading about America’s love for all things bridal.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, amid all the pleas for help, shelter and homes for displaced pets, someone organized a pipeline for brides. All those future-Mrs. lost their dresses in the flood, and while basic necessities were obviously the most impor
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