The Waves: Is the Wedding Dress Dead?
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth does a deep dive on wedding dresses. From the oldest family-run bridal shop in the United States, to a warehouse in New York, she explores what the modern wedding dress looks like. Along with brides-to-be Shannon Palus and Susan Matthews, Cheyna talks with Marteal Mayer, the owner of Loulette Bride in Brooklyn, and mother-daughter duo Shelly Mueller and Alyssa Pung, co-owners of Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan.
In Slate Plus: Our weekly And Just Like That…recap. This week it’s episode four with Cheyna Roth and Slate culture writer Heather Schwedel.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Special thanks to Shannon Palus and Susan Matthews.
Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Kraken Pro. Meet the all-new Kraken Pro, the powerful |
| 0:06.0 | customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. Its Kraken's most powerful trading platform |
| 0:11.0 | ever, built for lightning fast trades, unpacked with features like advanced auto-analysment |
| 0:16.0 | and analytics tools, all in a redesigned modular trading interface. Head to pro.krakken.com |
| 0:21.8 | and trade like a pro. Cryptocurrencies are unregulated in the UK. |
| 0:25.5 | The pro.krakken Pro.krakken Pro.krakken.com |
| 0:30.5 | When I think of wedding dresses, there's one that immediately comes to mind. |
| 0:34.5 | The door opens. |
| 0:36.5 | There's a bright, early morning of the happy frequency to see coming down there. |
| 0:41.5 | Princess Diana, that dress was iconic. The big sleeves, the 25-foot long train, the ivory |
| 0:50.5 | silk. |
| 0:51.5 | And if you ask a girl to draw princess, I think she'd draw dress just like that. The tiny |
| 0:55.7 | body is tiny waist and a great big skirt. There she goes, half the steps. |
| 1:03.5 | At least, that's what it was like in 1991. But what about now? When I got married about |
| 1:08.8 | a decade ago, I still thought of the wedding dress as being this big, goofy, princess thing |
| 1:14.5 | or at least long and definitely white, even if that wasn't really my style. |
| 1:19.5 | We are doing a seating chart because we were like, oh, we actually don't want everyone |
| 1:24.3 | to come in and just ramble to find their place and like, I doubt, like, you know, |
| 1:28.5 | colleagues at Slate were planning their wedding outfits this spring. |
| 1:31.5 | Neither one of them were interested in anything that looked like Princess Diana's dress. |
| 1:36.5 | Susan Matthews, Slate's executive editor, had already decided on her custom made wedding |
| 1:41.7 | jump suit. When we recorded this episode, Shannon Paulus, a senior editor at Slate, was |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.