The (British) white wedding offers a unique lens for studying a number of social and cultural phenomena from practices of intimacy, consumption, and romance to macro level studies of economics, value, and exchange. The wedding also represents an ideal focus for studying the intersection of intimacies and inequalities as it acts as a location for the practice and performance of intimacy which simultaneously encapsulates historical and contemporary gender, race, and class inequalities. These inequalities are often upheld, celebrated even, in the name of ‘tradition’ in relationships, marriage, and weddings. This article aims to interrogate this notion of tradition to understand how, rather than being a neutral concept, it is used to reproduce and reinforce existing gender inequalities, middle-class values, and privileging of Whiteness. The argument in this article draws on 3 years of research on weddings including interviews and ethnographic observations. I conclude that while wedding traditions may have become increasingly reflective of democratic choices, they retain traditional inequalities in their representation and conceptualisation.

（英国）白色婚礼为研究许多社会和文化现象提供了一个独特的视角，从亲密，消费和浪漫的习俗到经济学，价值和交流的宏观研究。婚礼也代表了研究亲密关系和不平等现象的理想焦点，因为它是亲密行为实践和表现的场所，同时囊括了历史和当代的性别，种族和阶级不平等现象。这些不平等通常以关系，婚姻和婚礼中的“传统”为名，甚至得到维护和赞扬。本文旨在询问这种传统观念，以了解它不是一个中立的概念，而是用来重现和加强现有的性别不平等，中产阶级价值观和白人特权。本文的论点借鉴了对婚礼的3年研究，包括访谈和人种学观察。我的结论是，尽管婚礼传统可能越来越反映出民主选择，但它们在代表和概念化方面仍保留着传统的不平等。