Individualised Conformity: Creating a Wedding

摘要: Drawing on notions of tradition, invention, and agency discussed in preceding chapters, this chapter explores the construction wedding as a process bricolage. The breakdown standard marriage encourages celebrants to pursue uniquely personal wedding, but ironically it is trying find distinction that uniformity emerges. For old traditions leads re-emergence tradition resource legitimation. Social divisions are re-assembled. In borrowing, adaptation, re-assembly, between what modern traditional becomes blurred: re-invented.