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Holson, Laura M. “For $38,000, Get the Cake, and Mickey, Too.” New York Times on the Web 24 May 2003. University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia 7 April 2008. <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/ business/24WEDD.htmlei=5007&en=8bd92e1431ff9b1a&ex=1369108800&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1145527777t6xyln6tLdWqb1ZTWNb1aw>
This is a newspaper article that talks about how couples can get married in Walt Disney World. The article references several examples of couples that have chosen to get married in this manner, explaining that a woman has the chance to feel like Cinderella. It depicts a few weddings in detail; in one example, the bride, donning a tiara, arrived in horse-drawn carriage to the wedding pavilion, where guests listened to Disney songs such as “Someday My Prince Will Come,” and wedding rings were presented inside a glass slipper. In another detailed account, one couple married in front of Cinderella’s castle inside Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme park; the bride arrived in Cinderella’s coach, while the groom arrived on white horse.The fact that couples want to get married in Disney World and have a Cinderella wedding experience helps elucidate the notion that people value Cinderella as epitomizing the romantic ideal. Brides can get married in Disney to feel like Cinderella, and the fact that couples choose to literally copy certain aspects of the film, such as the bride riding a horse-drawn carriage, goes along with the idea that the film sets an ideal within our minds on what marriage and love should be like – an ideal that was probably first learned about as a child. By copying various aspects of the film in their weddings, these couples may be trying to recreate the themes depicted in Walt Disney’s film, in the hopes that they will live “happily ever after.”