The wedding industry: Conde Nast Bridal Infobank American Wedding Study, 2002; Roper, 2000; “Wedding & Honeymoon Statistics,”
Top
Wedding Links
Cost of average wedding gift: American Wedding Study, 2002; Gerard J.
Monaghan, President, Association of Bridal Consultants
Expenditure of average wedding guest: Bigda, Carolyn, “Wedding Guests
Can Avoid Shedding Tears over Costs,” October 31, 2004
Tribune
GAO marriage benefits:
Newswire
There Over 1000 Federal Marriage Benefits?” May 26, 2004; Gerard J.
Monaghan, President, Association of Bridal Consultants
Bush’s Healthy Marriage Initiative: Kirkpatrick, David; Pear, Robert,
“Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage,”
Times
Low-Income Families,”
Increase in wages and odds of marriage: Carlson, Marcia; England,
Paula; McLanahan, Sara, “Union Formation and Dissolution in Fragile
Families,” November 2002.
Percentage of couples spending more than planned on wedding: Block,
Sandra, “‘Til Debt Do Us Part,”
Today
Cost of average wedding since 1980: Kerr, Robert, “Older Brides,
Bridegrooms See The New Trends Trailing Along,”
Appeal
World Report
1980; Conde Nast Bridal Infobank, 2002; BRIDE’s
Millenium Report: Wedding Love & Money, 2000.
Percentage of marriages ending within 15 years: “43 Percent of First
Marriages Break Up Within 15 Years,”
Center for Health Statistics
; Conde Nast Bridal Infobank American Wedding Study, 2002; Roper, 2000
Divorce in red states vs. blue states: National
Vital Statistics Report, 2003.
; Census 2000,
Most and least wanted gifts in U.K.: Ward, Simon P., “Unwanted
Wedding Gifts,” MSN,
July 19, 2003.
Percentage of couple omitting “obey” from vows and percentage of
brides taking husband’s name: “Weddings Across America: New Regional
Research From BRIDE’s Magazine,”
2002.
Number of states with laws against adultery: Turley, Jonathan, “Of
Lust and the Law,”
Washington Post
Supreme Court invalidation of laws against interracial marriage: “Can
Marriage Be Saved?”
Timeline,” PBS,
November 5, 2004.
Gay wedding market: “The Gay-Marriage Windfall: 16.8 Billion,”
Marriage in Disneyworld: Kingston, Anne, The Meaning of Wife, New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Pre-nups and Catherine Zeta-Jones wedding: Grossberg, Josh,
“Catherine & Michael’s Mini-Judgement,”
Online
; “Prenups for Ordinary People,”
Today
; McVeigh, Karen, “Couple ‘Touted’ Rights to Wedding,”
Scotsman
Big Weddings Bring Bigger Bucks,”
October 19, 2004
; Reiter, Amy, “Zeta-Jones Rolls the Dice,” Salon, December 6, 2000.
Pre-nups, 2nd weddings, and Liza Minelli: Burwell, Marite, “Celebrity
Wedding Trends,”
November 5, 2004; “Liza Minnelli, Husband Separate After 16 Months,”
July 29, 2003.
Cost of wedding and investment in college education:
Allstate
Investment Basics
Reality wedding TV shows:
;
www.realitytvlinks.com
Percentage of Americans “happily married”: Vogt, Ryan, “Laura Kipnis:
The Chronicle Interview,”
Chronicle
De Beers: Werthheimer, Linda and Siegal, Robert, “Critics Believe De Beers
Manipulates The Market to Keep Diamond Prices High,” NPR, All Things
Considered, November 27, 2001; Epstein, Edward Jay, “Have You Ever
Tried to Sell a Diamond?”
Online
Why the U.S. Should Let in De Beers,”
15, 2004; Kaplan, Barry, “Forever
Diamonds”; Payne, Melanie, ” ‘Right-hand’ Diamonds Marketed as
Power Sign,”
Bee
Pleads to Price-Fixing; Firm Pays $10 Million, Can Fully Reenter
U.S.,”
Percentage of divorced people re-marrying: Hodder, Harbour Fraser,
“The Future of Marriage,”
2004, p.42
J-Lo:
Chalmers, Katie, “On Top of Her Game; Jenny’s Come a Long Way, Baby,”
October 7, 2001; phone call to Ojani Noa; “Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs
Acquitted of Gun Possession and Bribery Charges,”
2, 2001, p. 57; Patel, Shyama, “Rock Stars: Celebrity Rings,”
York Metro
2004,
Press
; J.Lo
knockoff rings ; “Jennifer’s Big Surprise,” June 21, 2004,
June 7, 2004,
Miller, Marshall and Solot, Dorian, “Let Them Eat Wedding Rings: The
Role of Marriage Promotion in Welfare Reform,” 2002, Alternatives to
Marriage Project.
