Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage MystiqueIn Here Comes the Bride, Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how to get your man manuals and ends with the newlywed year. First theres Courtship and the Marriage Quest. Geller looks at the absurd nature of proposals, the inane practice of engagement and gift giving, and the