Getting Married demonstrates the importance of sociological perspectives on the family, providing vivid appraisals of the predictability and variability of marriage in the life course.Stephen SweetAuthor of The Work-Family InterfaceCarrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer accomplish the remarkable…an engaging book that succeeds both as a lively guide to the new world of heterosexual intimacy and as an authoritative sociology primer. Surveying everything from hook-up culture to stay-at-home dads, from bridezillas to separate bedrooms, Getting Married: The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships reminds us that the most personal aspects of our lives are not just of our own making. Judith TreasChancellor's Professor of SociologyUniversity of California, Irvine, USA