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"If you are planning or have ever planned to be a bride, this book will make you think and then make you cry."―Boston Globe
In this modern age, why do we carry on that most traditional of all traditions: marriage? When Kate Cohen decided to marry her longtime boyfriend, it seemed like a natural choice. But why? In an age of widespread cohabitation and divorce―when marriage is no longer the master key to sex, a shared home, or security―what reasons did she have for marrying? With charm and honesty, A Walk Down the Aisle addresses our desires to wed traditionally, and also to break with tradition. Illuminating familiar wedding customs by showing us those from other cultures and eras, and enlisting the ideas of figures from John Milton to Lyle Lovett, Cohen looks at how we wed today, how we find a true love, or how we find a china pattern. We join her during the summer before she walked down the aisle, and with her we face the questions her restless mind encountered―including the most troubling and, finally, exhilarating ones: What does that walk mean? And why does it feel so right?"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Kate Cohen is the author of The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival Through My Italian Family.
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Cohen's longtime love, Adam, didn't get down on one knee and propose to her. Instead, the two simply discussed getting married and decided, after seven years together, that it was time. But a lot of thought and preparation goes into a wedding, and Cohen's book is a meditation on everything involved in the physical and mental planning of a wedding. She examines the rituals and objects associated with weddings--the rings, the dress, the photographs, and the ceremony itself--and their symbolic meanings. Why are women willing to spend so much money on a dress they will only wear once? Why is death so deeply associated with weddings that it is mentioned in the vows? Why do couples who are otherwise not religious marry in a church and observe the customs of their ancestors? Cohen asks these and other questions as she analyzes both her own wedding and weddings in general. A thought-provoking study that challenges tradition even as it acknowledges its power and worth. Kristine Huntley
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0393324125
- ISBN 13 9780393324129
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages210
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