Snow collects stories of wedding disasters and hypothesizes that these disasters, while traumatic when they occur, are nevertheless unimportant to the healthiness of the subsequent marriage between bride and groom. Snow believes that the material and traditional aspects of a wedding ceremony are important but irrelevant to the actual strength of the marriage, and thus, that a disastrous wedding day is inconvenient but ultimately irrelevant to the actual marriage. She concludes by suggesting that disaster stories are used to educate others about the possible pitfalls of weddings and how to avoid them. Created by Annabelle Snow when she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 course in Winter 2005.