Blog Post #11

In both The Rise of the Lavish Wedding and Say Yes to the Dress, they talk about how weddings are becoming money-oriented and materialistic. The reading talks about how industries are making weddings a market. In the video it talks about how the women are only choosing one certain dress designer that they want to wear which goes along with being materialistic because they are stuck on wearing only the best. Another connection between the two is the connection of the white dress tradition. In the reading it talks about how Queen Victoria wore a white dress which established purity and wealth. Since then white dresses have become the new tradition which is shown in the video when all three women choose white dresses to wear. Many people like Kelly's mother in the video don't like breaking away from the tradition and anyone that does is looked at differently like Kelly was when she wanted to wear black.