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Watch This: The Subversive Humor of "DIY Bride"

Video post by Kelsey Wallace on September 25, 2012 - 2:42pm; tagged Brides, videos, Wedding Industrial Complex.
Mikala Bierna is best known for her her Disappointing Gay Best Friend series, which lampooned tired gay stereotypes. She's at it again with her new video "DIY Bride," where she pokes fun at the Wedding Industrial Complex.

screen shot from the video where Bierna is showing two identical bouquets side by side
Never forget: You can't spell bridey without DIY!
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Bridal Party: Let's Get Married

Social Commentary post by Michael Braithwaite on June 12, 2012 - 9:37am; tagged Brides, capitalism, Wedding Industrial Complex, weddings.
old-timey illustration of a chubby baby in a wedding dressI’d like to spend the next eight weeks with you looking at the history of weddings and marriage in Western culture, talking about how marriage is used as a tool of civil and economic inequality, and how the gender binary plays a role in how we think about weddings and helps to fuel the wasteful consumerism associated with THE SPECIAL DAY. Mainly I’d like to look at how anyone can say NO to the pitfalls of the wedding industrial complex.
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