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Jellison's fascinating and well-written account of Americans' love affair with the lavish white wedding reveals how popular culture has both mirrored and encouraged the hopes and desires of those about to many. Vicki Howard, author of Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition Should appeal to scholars and general readers alike for its clear prose, perceptive analysis, and captivating anecdotes drawn from wedding industry insiders, magazines, movies and television, and brides, as well as brides-to-be. Jessica Weiss, author of To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change Illuminates the American way of wedding - with all its tensions and diverse impulses. Beth Bailey, author of From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

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Katherine Jellison is associate professor of history at Ohio University and author of Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963.

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