Industry moves to shut down Plantation Weddings

[xoxodede]

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, 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.

I agree with going to them -- especially the ones your ancestors were enslaved on -- and/or buried.

But, I don't agree with having a wedding there. Nor do I think anyone should have a wedding there. But, to each it's own.

 

[King Frost]

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Good luck. Those shyts are ingrained in their lives, shyt won’t stop and it’s better to know who gets married there rather than they get to hide their hatred and shyt

 

[el_oh_el]

Watchmen type shyt

That show hits so many chords. shyts well done

 

[Swirv]

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

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These people are sick and demented. Too bad the little dolls from tales from the hood are fictional.

 

[MajesticLion]

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.

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.




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.

Wanting it to be so doesn't make it so. I get the need for a feel-good story here, but...still. The Antebellum Plantation in Stone Mountain will have a wedding shoot exactly like those this weekend, the plantation style resorts on Savannah will have them, etc etc. Claims that these companies "set the tone"...lol. No. It's going to take a lot more than news stories for the demand of such places to go away. Ask around the photographer circles in Houston or San Antonio how much the demand for these themed weddings and see for yourself. If anything, the one thing that will make them go away is that brides will lose a taste for it as a current fad and move on to something else. The demand drives the supply. The marketing exceeds the actual reach of these companies involved here. That's all I'm saying.


As far as the necessity of such things being challenged, I absolutely agree. Those places should have been bought and turned into working farm cooperatives long since at the very least, or black-owned resorts.