“There’s no longer a cookie-cutter expectation of what a wedding has to be,” says Coontz, whose new book, For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage, is out in May. Couples are increasingly choosing formats that reflect their own values rather than tradition, she says.
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