Show Notes:

3:30 How the book came to be

4:55 What is the Wedding Industrial Complex

7:00 What is the messaging around weddings, and when do we start teaching girls 

8:00 How young girls are marketed to, and the pervasive messages in media

10:00 Not dismissing the traditional wedding, but understanding the customs and why they exist

11:30 Why does the father give the bride away?

13:00 The garter belt tradition...why it exists.

16:00 Make decisions for yourselves and nobody else

19:00 How the media puts pressure on women to create the perfect wedding, and how diversity is missing

22:00 The picture perfect pressure influenced by social media

25:00 The Engagement period and building trust within the couple'

28:00 Focus on the wedding day vs. The marriage itself

34:00 Look into each others eyes

35:00 An Eco-conscious wedding

38:00 Diamonds, the story of why we idolize the diamond engagement ring

42:00 Looking most like yourself on your wedding, not a thinned up manufactured version of yourself

45:00 Gay couples and needing more representation 

48:00 You don't have to get caught up in anything goes for the sake of the wedding.

53:00 Where did the moxie to write the book come from

57:00 Where does their courage and feminist attitude come from?

1:00 What to get rid of when planning a wedding.

Book: The New Wedding Book 

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