Statistics show that there are twice as many funerals as marriages. In a well-organised society, fairness would dictate that there should be one funeral parlour for every two. This is far from the case! However, an effort has been made in this area by Société France-Noces. From the outset, this company has standardised wedding clothes, food and traditional puns. Today, at the door of every town hall, an agency offers future couples the possibility of organising their happiness methodically. Teachers, doctors and pre-wedding films provide moral and physical preparation for married life. Thanks to a perfectly industrialised system, wedding ceremonies and trips take place in the dream atmosphere defined in advance by contract and which France-Noces sums up in this seductive formula: “The wedding, the whole wedding, but nothing but the wedding”.