As Essig notes in “Marry Me?” “by convincing couples that diamonds are both necessary an valuable, DeBeers managed to create and $11 Billion market in selling engagement rings” (Essig 7). Political economies such as these raise questions surrounding who can access the social rituals that surround marriage and how the practice of these rituals changes the role marriage plays in different communal contexts. In the case of “GBF” marriage is normalized and values in a way that is exceedingly focused on the white experience of dating. The progression depicted in Tanner’s speech at the end of the film normalizes the financially taxing rituals of prom, proposal, and marriage as viable objectives for Tanner that are not necessarily considered a luxury. In an actual case that Essig references, a teen from Arizona purchased a trip to Hawaii for his partner as an aspect of his “promposal” (Essig 32). Though this is far from the norm, cases such as these are indicators about who is expected to be participating in a particular ritual or space. In the case of GBF, it seems that that person is predominantly, white, wealthy, and passing as either male or female.