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Why do eco-minded brides still choose new dresses? Research shows emotion, identity and ritual often outweigh sustainability.
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to reflect gender equality while honoring tradition.
There are several factors behind the decline of the traditional wedding dress, including financial pressures and growth in the culture of individualism.
The five canons of classical rhetoric – invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery – can be very helpful when writing a speech.
Jewish traditions to mark a marriage often involve ceremonies and celebrations before the big day, whether it’s a ritual bath or even a fiance’s conversion to Judaism.
A researcher explains how couples can create a sense of ‘our money’ while keeping a sense of financial autonomy.
A Catholic friar under the chuppah? A bride in henna and a groom in a kippah? Many Jewish interfaith couples find ways to honor both of their faiths.
By making entrepreneurs overconfident, some positive family events can be even more detrimental to new venture survival than negative ones.
Rites of passage are important. They do not merely celebrate the transition to a new state – they actively create this new state in the eyes of society, an anthropologist writes.
There is nothing like a wedding episode. Bluey’s first 28-minute special, The Sign, was the ultimate wedding television.
The average price of a wedding dress in Australia is A$2,385 – but this is just one reflection of their significant cultural and emotional weight.
Aso ebi - colourful fabrics worn at social events in NIgeria - makes parties glamorous but the cost can also be burdensome.
The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
A professor who has researched the Universal Life Church unpacks why many couples now prefer to hand-pick loved ones to perform their ceremonies.
Weddings have become increasingly curated: everything from the shoes to the table runners are perfectly themed and colour-co-ordinated. It is emblematic of our cultural obsession with perfection.
Nearly 70% of the women we spoke to who were planning their weddings intended to lose weight in preparation for their wedding day.
If you’re going to a wedding this summer, you should consider renting your outfit.
303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
A sociologist explains that the ability to claim transgender identities in India may appear progressive, but this can further marginalize historically stigmatized gender-nonconforming groups.
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