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Why Can’t We Quit Weddings?
FromRadio Atlantic
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Jul 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Marriages today are much more flexible than they used to be. Women’s roles have changed. Gay marriage is legal. More and more people aren’t choosing marriage at all. And yet the American wedding has hardly changed at all. If anything, it keeps getting more elaborate, more luxe, more wedding-like. In this episode, we talk to Xochitl Gonzalez, who wrote a confessional for The Atlantic about her years as a luxury wedding planner, about why we keep perfecting on what is essentially a nineteenth- century artifact.
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Released:
Jul 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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