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99% Invisible

Wedding Dresses: Articles of Interest #12

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The symbolism and weight of the white wedding dress

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you came into the world of radio, what were you doing?

0:02.5

I was working on wacky daytime talk shows, late night talk shows,

0:10.0

YouTube talk shows, a bunch of just random things.

0:14.5

My colleague at 99% invisible, Vivian Le.

0:17.8

On the 2013 reboot of the Arsenio Hall show, I was a production assistant and my current

0:25.1

fiance was also a production assistant and we've been together for five years.

0:29.7

So last year Vivian had to plan her wedding, which was kind of like her old job as a production

0:34.5

assistant. Except that in this production, she's the star and the wardrobe department.

0:41.2

I've been looking at wedding dresses since me and Cody got together.

0:45.6

Five years ago.

0:46.6

Yeah, like I've always been thinking about like what kind of dress do I want.

0:50.1

So I think that's probably why it's so hard for me to decide now,

0:53.3

because it's something that I've been thinking about for so long.

0:56.0

It's a really big decision.

0:58.2

So I am not really looking forward to like picking out the dress

1:01.5

because it seems so stressful.

1:03.2

I mean, on the surface, it's just a dress.

1:05.8

A dress that is white.

1:07.3

But you like buying clothes normally, no?

1:09.9

I like, oh, this is really bad.

1:12.3

I am a, I'm like a bargain shopper.

1:16.5

I am a Maxineista.

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