Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland.

Abstract

Part 1 Contexts of Scottish marrying: the legal framework the churches in Scotland christian marriage and Scottish liturgy. Part 2 Engagement: getting married the engagement - rings, announcements and parties and presents being engaged. Part 3 Learning the lore - planning and the wedding industry: the reception the ceremony and all the rest. Part 4 Casting, dressing and participation: the bride and her dress the bridal party the bridegroom and the males of the company the mother of the bride and the female company the guest list seating for the meal the experience. Part 5 Festivities before the day: the presents the show of presents taking out stags and hens. Part 6 Wedding day 1 - the ceremony: services in the Church of Scotland the Catholic nuptial mass services for mixed marriages music innovation. Part 7 Wedding day 2 - framing the ceremony: the pattern photography in, through and out scrambles interpretation. Part 8 Wedding day 3 - the reception: the line-up the cake and toasts the meal speeches the dancing singing variation favours and the bride's responsibilities going away. Part 9 Familiar rites and anthropological interpretation marrying in the social and cultural context of Glasgow: kinship and families social class religion cross-cultural prespectives symbols and interpretation.