projects: The Ritual of the White Wedding: The Ideals of Perfection, Excess and Blood My secondary substantive area of research is the contemporary ‘white’ wedding, which I read as a sacrificial ritual and a meaning-giving liminal space-time nexus of various performances, narratives and objects. In this research, I examined the ‘white wedding’—the kind of wedding that we are told girls dream about since they’re very young: a fantastic diamond ring, a fantastic white dress, a fantastic big cake, and a fantastic celebration. Ritual: Sacrifice I argue that the white wedding is a rite of passage and also a cannibalistic blood sacrifice of the bride. It is an act that enacts the communion of the ‘community’ by symbolically annihilating the bride. Rite of passage: Time of creation The white wedding constitutes family and community of a particular making, re-defining relations and networks. It then situates this newly made network in a meaningful timeline whilst at the same time erasing its enactment of this teleology. Image: Store window on Whyte Avenue, Edmonton, AB. white wedding