ABSTRACT
At present, intercultural weddings are but a small percentage of the total number, with most individuals still choosing to marry people quite like themselves. However, the modern United States is a plural, multiethnic society, with a wide variety of cultural groups together making up the whole. It is important to ask how such diversity is socially articulated and, equally, what occurs on these occasions when families of diverse backgrounds are combined. Because the major participants in intercultural weddings must find a way to effectively cope with multiple traditions, it has been assumed in these pages that studying this one ritual will throw light on other contexts of cultural difference; solutions found to be of value here may hold implications for potential solutions to misunderstandings in other contexts.
