Industry moves to shut down Plantation Weddings

[MajesticLion]

The Wedding Planning industry including venues, registries, photo hosting/sharing sites .

There is no such industry. For another, the report specifically said 5 websites. Don't go all Killmonger here.

 

[get these nets]

There is no such industry. For another, the report specifically said 5 websites. Don't go all Killmonger here.

Not sure if you are serious here. An "industry" can be made up several different types of businesses catering to the same market or audience. Weddings are BIG BUSINESS.

The "five websites" mentioned are national companies , perhaps international, and set the tone for smaller businesses within the industry.

 

[xoxodede]

There is no such industry. For another, the report specifically said 5 websites. Don't go all Killmonger here.

It's a major subset in the wedding industry.

 

[BaileyPark31]

The thee entire fukk is this shyt!

“Let’s go to the slave quarters and take silly picks”






Seems like they are ripe for cancel culture in ten years. If it’s still around.

Can u imagine AA or black folk in general going to a place like a concentration camp or internment camp to throw a fukn party.

These people are disgusting.


The slaves who worked the property coukdnt even legally marry amongst themselves.

 

[MajesticLion]

Not sure if you are serious here. An "industry" can be made up several different types of businesses catering to the same market or audience. Weddings are BIG BUSINESS.

The "five websites" mentioned are national companies , perhaps international, and set the tone for smaller businesses within the industry.

It's a major subset in the wedding industry.

I'm aware. I've shot weddings. It's not an industry; an industry is organized and works in tandem. This is a loose coalition at best, and the report is a marketing ploy.

While I agree with the tasteless nature of plantation-anything, this is not going to stop such weddings. I can guarantee you that.

 

[xoxodede]

I'm aware. I've shot weddings. It's not an industry; an industry is organized and works in tandem. This is a loose coalition at best, and the report is a marketing ploy.

While I agree with the tasteless nature of plantation-anything, this is not going to stop such weddings. I can guarantee you that.

It's definitely one. And it's a major subset inside one as well. Whites are literally building venue's to mirror old Plantations and calling them Plantation venues and resorts.

They picked up steam when Ryan Reynolds and Blake L had their wedding at one - Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively's plantation wedding pics banned

And Ben Affleck owning one: https://people.com

Some have even linked up with international hotel chains:

Wyndham Partnership Questions Answered - Plantation Resort
Liberty Bank increases commitment to $30MM as Plantation Resort signs new partnership deal – Wellington Financial

I'm sure you weren't hired to shoot a Plantation wedding -- nor seriously considered.

And I agree -- but we (those who care and ancestors were enslaved on them) still should call them out -- no matter if they will or not.

 

[Burned Verses]

I could be wrong but didn’t plantations in Louisiana have a reputation for being “nice” to slaves? Might explain why this was allowed for so long.

 

[xoxodede]

I could be wrong but didn’t plantations in Louisiana have a reputation for being “nice” to slaves? Might explain why this was allowed for so long.

Everywhere in the U.S. -- especially in the South that disgusting MYTH is spewed. It's allowed cause they don't see our ancestors as victims nor people.

 

[get these nets]

I'm aware. I've shot weddings. It's not an industry; an industry is organized and works in tandem. This is a loose coalition at best, and the report is a marketing ploy.

Wall Street Journal says different.
This is a WSJ interview with the founder of "one of the 5 websites" covered in the story....where she discusses industry trends.

What’s Next for Weddings: Phone-Free Moments and Far-Flung Locales


Like I wrote earlier, the "just five websites" mentioned in the story set the tone for the rest of the industry, and the smaller and ancillary companies.

While I agree with the tasteless nature of plantation-anything, this is not going to stop such weddings. I can guarantee you that.

Several people have expressed the fact that you cannot prevent such weddings from taking. Not sure what your guarantee means. You can't guarantee that there WON'T be couples who decide to choose different locales for their weddings because of the public fallout/stigma attached to this story.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Demonic. Taking pictures at a Plantation and using the cabins/shacks the enslaved lived in as photo props.

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damn, i was gonna defend using these venues as the main homes, landscape, etc can be very scenic and many of those homes were used by "high society" long after slavery, but looking at people fukking around in the slave quarters with zero regard to the history and suffering that happened there, fukk em.

but to folks saying black folks shouldn't marry here, i actually think it's a bit poetic, to exercise your right that was stripped from our ancestors (legal marriage), to be pairing with your love vs some random pairing made at the hands of whites, i also think there's ways to commemorate the past and pay tribute to your ancestors during the ceremony or reception

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Truth is, if they didn’t get money from things like that, those places would have been in poor condition years ago.

Like falling apart, run down, poorly maintained, etc.

that’s leaves me conflicted. As I don’t like historical artifacts of slavery however i understand the need for proper education on the event in history.

Artifacts are necessary to educate. But I wonder if a run down plantation would be better psychologically for people...

nah, i went to a few in lousiana this year, and they were"preserved" well. to see the perverse disparity of life and amenities in the big house compared to the slave quarters and look at the expansive land they had to work, that hit harder than if i was visiting some crumbling site with just remnants of the history

 

[xoxodede]

damn, i was gonna defend using these venues as the main homes, landscape, etc can be very scenic and many of those homes were used by "high society" long after slavery, but looking at people fukking around in the slave quarters with zero regard to the history and suffering that happened there, fukk em.

but to folks saying black folks shouldn't marry here, i actually think it's a bit poetic, to exercise your right that was stripped from our ancestors (legal marriage), to be pairing with your love vs some random pairing made at the hands of whites, i also think there's ways to commemorate the past and pay tribute to your ancestors during the ceremony or reception

We have to agree to disagree.

Not sure if you visited plantations before - or have relatives that live close to any. But, the energy there is not happy nor peaceful. It's not a place where I think your ancestors want you to go back to to pay tribute.

Yes, go visit and pour barefoot libations - or leave offerings -- and visit grave sites -- but that is where it ends. Plantations are literally gravesites.

 

[get these nets]

Everywhere in the U.S. -- especially in the South that disgusting MYTH is spewed. It's allowed cause they don't see our ancestors as victims nor people.

Agree. The term "down the river" and what it implied to enslaved people here refutes this myth.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

We have to agree to disagree.

Not sure if you visited plantations before - or have relatives that live close to any. But, the energy there is not happy nor peaceful. It's not a place where I think your ancestors want you to go back to to pay tribute.

Yes, go visit and pour barefoot libations - or leave offerings -- and visit grave sites -- but that is where it ends. Plantations are literally gravesites.

i have visited plantations and personally think every ADOS should, for the history, the connection, the understanding...it's especially critical IMO as we continue to age further away from those days (ie lose generations who knew/lived slavery, sharecropping, jim crow & the black revolution) because a lot of black folks no longer really know their roots (some of it is on people to learn, but nothing is as strong as talking to people who lived it, but that's not possible anymore, those generations are dead), and so many schools don't teach this stuff, i feel like many blacks overlook it as well. but yeah, we will have to disagree, there was just a whole other level of respect i gained for my ancestors by stepping foot on those plantations and being walked through what they went through...no way i could imagine living what they did.

 

[xoxodede]

This was the realest Plantation tour I have ever seen.