Since its groundbreaking first edition, White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture has invited countless readers to explore the cultural institutionalization of heterosexuality through the familiar lens and ritualistic practice of weddings. Author Chrys Ingraham facilitates this exploration and critical introduction to the topic of heterosexuality by investigating the various practices, arrangements, beliefs, and rituals that make up the foundations of the modern wedding industry and defamiliarizing the ritualistic practice of weddings altogether. Less a book about white weddings than it is about the ways modern weddings and depictions thereof represent heterosexual privilege, global economic structures, and the impact of popular culture on everyday life. Sparkling with lively examples and discerning insight, and now updated throughout to reflect and address the substantial changes across the wedding landscape, the third edition of White Weddings offers a fascinating look into social constructions of sexuality, power and privilege, and inequality and remains a must-read for new and advanced students in sociology, cultural studies and related fields.