{"id":11989,"date":"2015-01-17T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11989"},"modified":"2015-01-17T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:54:41","slug":"how-weddings-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/how-weddings-have-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Weddings Have Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011715_2050_HowWeddings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beth Montemurro took a look at how Christian weddings have changed over time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queen Victoria of England got the modern wedding dress started when she wore a white satin gown for her wedding in 1840.<\/li>\n<li>The elite soon copied this fashion although it didn&#8217;t become widely popular among the masses until after WW2.<\/li>\n<li>Up until the mid-1950s Christian weddings were done at home, in the family&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday best&#8221; perhaps with a small dinner party.<\/li>\n<li>Then modern marketing got started. Stores, jewelers, and caterers began selling the image of a decadent wedding.<\/li>\n<li>Dolls in bridal gowns imprinted the standards of a modern weddings on children at young ages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about how weddings have evolved, how they are a pledge of allegiance both to the conventional and to the new, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/culture\/why-the-traditional-wedding-isnt-as-traditional-as-it-seems\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more of Centives&#8217; previous coverage on the economics of weddings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/?s=wedding\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/culture\/why-the-traditional-wedding-isnt-as-traditional-as-it-seems\/\">Aeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Montemurro took a look at how Christian weddings have changed over time: Queen Victoria of England got the modern wedding dress started when she wore a white satin gown for her wedding in 1840. The elite soon copied this fashion although it didn&#8217;t become widely popular among the masses until after WW2. Up until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011715_2050_HowWeddings1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11992,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions\/11992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}