Until now, there has been little reckoning within the wedding industrial complex about re-appropriating sites of historical atrocities as venues for fairy-tale romance
Photo: valliegurl/Getty Images/iStockphoto A number of popular wedding planning websites have announced they will cut back on language that glorifies former slave plantations as “charming” or “elegant” wedding venues, according to a new report by BuzzFeed.
Plantations continue to be popular wedding destinations in the American South; Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have long been criticized for their choice to get married at a former slave plantation in Charleston back in 2012. Yet until now, there has been little reckoning within the wedding industrial complex about re-appropriating sites of historical atrocities as venues for fairy-tale romance.
In response to a campaign by the civil rights organization Color of Change, five prominent sites — Pinterest, The Knot, WeddingWire, Brides and Zola — have promised to make changes to the way they promote plantations as wedding venues. “Plantations are physical reminders of one of the most horrific human rights abuses the world has ever seen,” Color of Change wrote in a letter to these groups.
The decision comes at a time when many civic and cultural institutions such as schools and museums are reckoning with how best to grapple with America’s history of racial oppression, as we have seen in the many fraught public battles over whether or not to remove Confederate Era monuments. Brides and Zola said they plan to remove plantations from their lists of venues, while The Knot and Wedding Wire plan to still list these venues, but scrutinize the language they use to describe them. A representative from The Knot told the New York Times that they are working on new rules that will prohibit “using language that romanticizes or glorifies a history that includes slavery.
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