Wedding paradoxes: individualized conformity and the ‘perfect day’:

摘要: Marriage rates in twenty-first-century Britain are historically low, divorce and separation high, marriage is no longer generally seen as necessary for legitimate sexual relationships, long-term partnership or even parenting. Yet at the same time weddings have become more prominent, both social aspiration popular culture. But why a wedding, especially an ornate, expensive time-consuming when there appears to be little need do so? Similarly, never been free from cultural norms official control – so these supposedly unique deeply personal events usually replay assumed traditions? We draw small qualitative sample of 15 interviews with white, heterosexual celebrants address questions. While existing accounts posit display success, emphasizing distinction, manipulation by powerful wedding industry, we argue that involve necessarily adapting from, re-serving, tradition process bricolage. This shapes four major discourses interviewees used give meanings their weddings: project couple, relationality, re-traditionalization romanticized consumption. At many couples did not want distinctively unique, but rather normal. This what call ‘individualized conformity’.