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Jennifer Giles collected personal narratives about Mormon honeymoon folklore. Included are legends, stories of naivety, folk beliefs, honeymoon advice, warnings, stories of embarrassing first nights, jokes played on newlyweds, and ice breakers. Project was written for an English 393 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1994.

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Typewritten research paper for a class at Brigham Young University. Scott writes about wedding proposals.

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Anderson interviewed friends about their opinions on wedding receptions. Included are married couple's reflections on their own receptions, and unwed folk's opinions on both how they want their future reception to go, and their feelings about the receptions they had attended. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Reynolds collected narratives from women about disasters that occurred on their wedding day. Included are problems with dresses, bad weather and power outages, and incompetent florists and photographers. The project was written for and English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1997.

Scope and Contents note This project contains folklore and rituals surrounding food and weddings. The analysis comments on how food is woven through many different rituals in a wedding. The collector compares the differences of food in three different types of marriages: marriage by force or capture, marriage through contract or purchase, and marriage through mutual love. The project shares how food has different significance in these three marriage types. Collected by Patti Merrill, Dr. Rudy's ENGL 495 class,...

Scope and Contents note This project contains participant's answers to a survey about literature they had read and the themes of courtship and marriage found in literature. Analysis paper topics include: "The Importance of Family in the LDS Culture," "Why Study Family Life?" "The Effect of Literature on the Average LDS Reader," and "Weddings and Literature: Field Research." Survey questions include: "What sort of materials (if any) have you read related to marriage/relationships/weddings? What? When? Why?" "Were...

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Student generated paper by Candace Munoa on Latter-day Saint wedding and receptions customs.

Scope and Contents note 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...

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Walker writes about problems with roommates at Brigham Young University. Included are rude moments, awkward stories, and strange food habits. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 392 class at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Craw analyzes the possible motivations for the intense amount of local pride in the town of Minersville, Utah (nicknamed Punkin'town). She finds that most members of Minersville believe that they are chosen people who must demonstrate their supremacy through acts of generosity and through building the community. Created by Jennifer C. Craw when she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 course in Fall 2003.