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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n Why have Americans clung so hard to the dream of a fancy wedding? Hanna Rosin asked Xochitl Gonzalez, our staff writer who used to be a luxury-wedding planner, this question on the Radio Atlantic podcast in 2023. \u201cWe\u2019ve let go of so many \u2018middle-class American aspirations,\u2019 but we haven\u2019t been able to let go of the wedding,\u201d Xochitl noted. \u201cPeople have given up on college, and I don\u2019t think that they want to give up on weddings.\u201d<\/p>\n Social media has expanded the expectations of weddings and the thrill of being the center of attention for a day. And as couples strive to keep up with cultural perceptions and their friends\u2019 lives, they can end up putting financial and logistical strain on their guests and their bridal parties (in what my colleague Annie Joy Williams recently called bridesmaid inflation). Today\u2019s newsletter explores wedding sprawl and all the people it can affect.<\/p>\n On Wedding Sprawl<\/strong><\/p>\n Bridesmaid Inflation<\/p>\n By Annie Joy Williams<\/p>\n Why are we making those we love most suffer for our weddings?<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n The Fake Poor Bride<\/p>\n By Xochitl Gonzalez<\/p>\n Confessions of a wedding planner (From 2023<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Why Can\u2019t We Quit Weddings?<\/p>\n By Hanna Rosin<\/em><\/p>\n Marriages aren\u2019t what they used to be. So why are weddings ever more wedding-like and deluxe?<\/p>\n Listen.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Why have Americans clung so hard to the dream of a fancy wedding? Hanna Rosin asked Xochitl Gonzalez,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[9844,10958,17939,6658],"class_list":{"0":"post-30630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-affects","9":"tag-guests","10":"tag-sprawl","11":"tag-wedding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}