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	<title><![CDATA[Penance for Bridezilla: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-whelan/penance-for-bridezilla-on_b_49862.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I'm getting married in two weeks, and reading <a href="http://www.rebeccamead.com">Rebecca Mead's</a> new book <em>One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding</em> was a necessary act of penance. </p>

<p>Mead, a writer for <a href="http://www.newyorker.com">The New Yorker</a> describes the evolution of simple family nuptials into the $161 billion consumer bonanza that birthed Bridezilla. Brides reading Mead's book may laugh at their own folly, cry at how bamboozled they allowed themselves to be, or unfortunately and most likely, not read the book...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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