Weddings, in particular “white weddings”, are a staple of American imagery. White weddings, as the dominant form of marriage, are permeating both culture and industry. Specifically, the stereotypical white wedding is a spectacle featuring a bride dressed in a formal white wedding dress, combined with a combination of attendants and witnesses, a religious ceremony, a wedding reception, and a honeymoon (p 3). Ingraham's main point about the wedding industry is that images of sham weddings permeate our culture. From movies to sitcoms, commercials, magazines and (television) talk shows, we cannot simply avoid the glorified presence of weddings in our society. These images and associated rituals are so common and expected that they seem “natural” and have even gone virtually unnoticed. Ingraham does not criticize marriages themselves, but rather focuses on the ways in which heterosexuality is heavily organized by society and culture. Ingraham makes her argument by saying that women did not enter this world knowing that they wanted to wear a ball gown, practice what is called "dating" and buy a white wedding dress. Likewise, men did not come out of the womb knowing that they would one day have to buy a date or spend two months' income to buy an engagement ring (p. 3). After reading the first chapter of Ingraham's book, her thesis clearly states that weddings are one of the major events that signal and prepare heterosexuals for embrace of marriage as an organizing practice of the institution of heterosexuality. Ingraham's argument is not the first to center the theme that the white wedding is too expensive and lavish a celebration, leading to a sense of vanity. Ingraham constantly shares her important insight about how Anglo-American sham marriages are spectacles and how they serve to “put on a spectacle” for others. For those of the past and present who have