Love among the ruins -- The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances -- "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda.