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Diversity In Wedding Advertisments, Katelyn Suiter, Bailey Bohannah, Joe Mcmahon Mar 2017

Diversity In Wedding Advertisments, Katelyn Suiter, Bailey Bohannah, Joe Mcmahon

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Katelyn Suiter

Bailey Bohannan

Joe McMahon

March 9, 2017

Abstract

We believe large wedding advertisers are creating a bias perception of cultural weddings and wedding parties. From preliminary research, we have found that large, international, wedding opinion leaders such as David’s Bridal and Tiffany and Company are setting a perceptive standard of same-ethnic couples within one wedding advertisement. Although they cover a wide range of ethnic backgrounds through traditional wedding scenes, they do not cross cultures within a single advertisement. Recently, there has been an increase of homosexual wedding advertisements, but all advertisements we have studied so far …