Rather, they are celebratory fantasies of sexual excess, with titles like "The love feast, or the bride's experience," that invoke images of a greedy, gluttonous body.
Rhea Vedro, who made the wedding rings, spent many Maine summers with the bride, an experience she sums up this way: "gin and tonics and black flies".
But it doesn't seem that brides are experiencing smug delight at improving their appearance: only panic at what's expected of them.
The concept of the video was conceived by Clarkson and depicts her as a bride who experiences some dream-like hints that her husband-to-be is having an affair with a brunette ceremony attendee.
But the available evidence suggests that some brides had happy experiences; others did not.
The 16-year-old protagonist of "Kuykendall's Gold" may be a frontier bride with little experience beyond her elderly husband's trading post, but the issues of lust and fidelity with which she wrestles are as relevant as anything a teenager might face today.
I wish the Prince and his bride every best experience in their royal lives of service.
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Autumn can bring older grooms with laughter lines, brides made beautiful by experience.
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