Background

• As remarriage has become more common, remarried relationship interactions appear to resemble first-marriage dynamics (e.g., Gupta, 1999, Sullivan, 2004), although remarrying women may do less work than once-married women (Sullivan, 1997). • Little is known about how gender is constructed in wedding planning for couples in which someone is marrying for a second time or more, and if they do anything differently, what accounts for this. Results • Most couples ’ previous weddings were formal, traditional affairs compared to their most recent weddings, which were smaller and less “fairytale