For Richer For Poorer: Sources

The wedding industry: Conde Nast Bridal Infobank American Wedding Study, 2002; Roper, 2000; "Wedding & Honeymoon Statistics," Top Wedding Links

Cost of average wedding gift: American Wedding Study, 2002; Gerard J. Monaghan, President, Association of Bridal Consultants

Expenditure of average wedding guest: Bigda, Carolyn, "Wedding Guests Can Avoid Shedding Tears over Costs," October 31, 2004 Chicago Tribune

GAO marriage benefits: U.S. Newswire, "Institute for Marriage and Public Policy: Are There Over 1000 Federal Marriage Benefits?" May 26, 2004; Gerard J. Monaghan, President, Association of Bridal Consultants

Bush's Healthy Marriage Initiative: Kirkpatrick, David; Pear, Robert,
"Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage," href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/14/politics/campaigns/14MARR.html?ex=1100235600&en=ef38bd15313b634d&ei=5070&oref=login" target="new">NY
Times, January 14, 2004; Brezosky, Lynn, "Attorney General Hosts Summits On Helping
Low-Income Families," Associated Press, October 21, 2004.

Increase in wages and odds of marriage: Carlson, Marcia; England,
Paula; McLanahan, Sara, "Union Formation and Dissolution in Fragile
Families," November 2002.

Percentage of couples spending more than planned on wedding: Block,
Sandra, "'Til Debt Do Us Part," href="http://www.azcentral.com/style/articles/0627debt.html" target="new">USA
Today, November 9, 2004.

Cost of average wedding since 1980: Kerr, Robert, "Older Brides,
Bridegrooms See The New Trends Trailing Along," The Commercial
Appeal (Memphis), February 9, 1992; "Calendar," U.S. News &
World Report, June 6, 1994; BRIDE's Reader Profile Study, October
1980; Conde Nast Bridal Infobank, 2002; href="http://www.weddinggazette.com/content/002165.shtml" target="new">BRIDE's
Millenium Report: Wedding Love & Money, 2000.

Percentage of marriages ending within 15 years: "43 Percent of First
Marriages Break Up Within 15 Years," href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/01news/firstmarr.htm" target="new">National
Center for Health Statistics, May 24, 2001.
; Conde Nast Bridal Infobank American Wedding Study, 2002; Roper, 2000

Divorce in red states vs. blue states: href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm" target="new">National
Vital Statistics Report, 2003.
; Census 2000,
U.S. Census Bureau

Most and least wanted gifts in U.K.: Ward, Simon P., "Unwanted
Wedding Gifts," href="http://money.msn.co.uk/Planning/life_events/gettingmarried/insight/weddedfinancialbliss/UnwantedWeddingGifts/default.asp" target="new">MSN,
July 19, 2003.

Percentage of couple omitting "obey" from vows and percentage of
brides taking husband's name: "Weddings Across America: New Regional
Research From BRIDE's Magazine," Business Wire, February 27,
2002.

Number of states with laws against adultery: Turley, Jonathan, "Of
Lust and the Law," href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62581-2004Sept4.html" target="new">The
Washington Post, September 5, 2004.

Supreme Court invalidation of laws against interracial marriage: "Can
Marriage Be Saved?"The Nation, July 5, 2004; "Go Deeper: Race
Timeline," href="http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_03_j-godeeper.htm" target="new">PBS,
November 5, 2004.

Gay wedding market: "The Gay-Marriage Windfall: 16.8 Billion,"
Forbes.com, April 5, 2004.

Marriage in Disneyworld: Kingston, Anne, The Meaning of Wife, New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Pre-nups and Catherine Zeta-Jones wedding: Grossberg, Josh,
"Catherine & Michael's Mini-Judgement," href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12874,00.html" target="new">E!
Online,November 7, 2003.
; "Prenups for Ordinary People," The Week, July 16, 2004, p. 36; "Zeta-Jones Wins Hello! Damages," November 7, 2003,
CNN.com; "Love and Marriage, Celebrity-Style," href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/lds016.htm" target="new">USA
Today, December 29, 2000
; McVeigh, Karen, "Couple 'Touted' Rights to Wedding," href="http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=766&id=185142003" target="new">The
Scotsman, February 15, 2003; Valhouli, Christina, "Big Stars,
Big Weddings Bring Bigger Bucks," href="http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/09/0509feat_print.html" target="new">Forbes.com,
October 19, 2004
; Reiter, Amy, "Zeta-Jones Rolls the Dice," Salon, December 6, 2000.

Pre-nups, 2nd weddings, and Liza Minelli: Burwell, Marite, "Celebrity
Wedding Trends," href="http://weddings.about.com/cs/bridesandgrooms/a/clebritywed_2.htm" target="new">Weddings,
November 5, 2004; "Liza Minnelli, Husband Separate After 16 Months,"
href="http://www.inq7.net/ent/2003/jul/30/ent_4-1.htm" target="new">AFP,
July 29, 2003.

Cost of wedding and investment in college education:
href="http://www.allstate.com/finance/investmentbasics/planningbasics/stopprocrastinatingandstartinvesting.htm" target="new">Allstate
Investment Basics

Reality wedding TV shows:
href="http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_reality_television_programs" target="new"List
of reality TV programs;
www.realitytvlinks.com

Percentage of Americans "happily married": Vogt, Ryan, "Laura Kipnis:
The Chronicle Interview," href="http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=690" target="new">Northwestern
Chronicle, October 24, 2003.

De Beers: Werthheimer, Linda and Siegal, Robert, "Critics Believe De Beers
Manipulates The Market to Keep Diamond Prices High," NPR, All Things
Considered, November 27, 2001; Epstein, Edward Jay, "Have You Ever
Tried to Sell a Diamond?" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82feb/8202diamond1.htm" target="new">Atlantic
Online, February 1982; Dwyer, Dustin, "Diamond in the Rough:
Why the U.S. Should Let in De Beers," Orlando Sentinel, March
15, 2004; Kaplan, Barry, href="http://Jewelry-paideia.com/reference/ref-diamond-jewelry-2.php"target="new">"Forever
Diamonds"; Payne, Melanie, " 'Right-hand' Diamonds Marketed as
Power Sign," href="http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/7887166p-8825882c.html" target="new">Sacramento
Bee, December 2, 2003; Pressler, Margaret Webb, "DeBeers
Pleads to Price-Fixing; Firm Pays $10 Million, Can Fully Reenter
U.S.," The Washington Post, July 14, 2004.

Percentage of divorced people re-marrying: Hodder, Harbour Fraser,
"The Future of Marriage," Harvard Magazine, November/December
2004, p.42

J-Lo:
Chalmers, Katie, "On Top of Her Game; Jenny's Come a Long Way, Baby,"
Winnipeg Sun, June 29, 2003; "Selena Proposal," Independent,
October 7, 2001; phone call to Ojani Noa; "Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Acquitted of Gun Possession and Bribery Charges," Jet, April
2, 2001, p. 57; Patel, Shyama, "Rock Stars: Celebrity Rings," href="http://www.newyorkmetro.com/shopping/guides/wedding/rings/features/celeb.htm" target="new">New
York Metro; "Lopez Announces Split from Affleck," January 23,
2004, href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/01/22/affleck.lopez.zp/" target="new">Associated
Press
; href="http://czfantasy.com/cgi-bin/czfstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=jloring"target="new">J.Lo
knockoff rings ; "Jennifer's Big Surprise," June 21, 2004,
People, p.68; "Around the Watercooler J-Lo Ties the Knot,"
June 7, 2004, Good Morning America (ABC news)transcript;
Miller, Marshall and Solot, Dorian, "Let Them Eat Wedding Rings: The
Role of Marriage Promotion in Welfare Reform," 2002, Alternatives to
Marriage Project.