Winch, Alison and Webster, Anna. 2012. Here comes the brand: Wedding media and the management of transformation. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(1), pp. 51-59. ISSN 1030-4312 [Article]

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We interrogate how strategic management discourses intersect with the image of the bride as she is addressed and presented in wedding media. By examining celebrity magazines, bridal self-help forums and Living TV's Four Weddings, we argue that wedding media's explosive growth is linked to a rise in branding culture and its exploitation of women's apparent aspirations for visibility. Wedding media branding appropriates romantic narratives of traditional femininity, such as achieving the perfect bridal look and finding and marrying ‘the one’. Simultaneously, it offsets and validates this traditionalism through associating the spectacle of wedding consumption with the self-determining power to manage transformation.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.630143
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 25 January 2012 Published
Item ID:	32189
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2022 13:27
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2022 13:27
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32189

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