Louisiana venues hurt as sites scrub 'plantation weddings'
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 Published On Dec 5, 2019

Five popular wedding websites have announced they will no longer push plantation weddings, in response to a campaign asking for the wedding industry to stop romanticizing plantations.

The changes could impact the wedding industry in Louisiana which has at least 24 venues from the coast to Baton Rouge which refer to themselves as a "plantation." About a third of those venues are newer establishments and not actual antebellum plantations, but many of the others have grim and violent histories of slavery.

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