Cutting the Cake Together
Anna Höpflinger Picture: Marie-Therese Mäder A few months ago, I was invited to a protestant wedding in Switzerland. When the bride and groom came out of the church, their way was blocked by a bed sheet held by two guests. The bride and groom were handed a pair of scissors. They had to cut […]
Koffi and Mary’s Weddings as Truly Lived Cultural-Religious Diversity
During my field work about the role of wedding photos and videos I have met 21 couples so far in three different countries. To gather data of diverse weddings I was looking for a Muslim couple to talk about their wedding. Unfortunately, none of the Muslim couples I was in contact with would agree to […]
Marrying Backwards
Weddings as Entertainment in the Reality Show “Love is Blind” The reality dating show “Love is Blind” (Netflix 2021) brings marriageable young people together in a studio that separates male and female participants whilst they are dating. The dating is “blind” and a type of speed dating during which one man and one woman meet […]
The Repetition of Wedding Imagery or the Never Changing Britain
Mid-May 2022 I was on my way to Goldsmiths, University of London where I spend three months as a visiting scholar at the centre for visual anthropology. At the bus stop just in front of the university the poster ad of a bank has been placed in a frame covered by a glass surface. On […]