Maybe I Should Return My Midriff Baring Mini-Skirt Wedding Ensemble?

Check out the Newsweek article on how slutty modern brides have become here. : http://www.newsweek.com/id/200495?gt1=43002 and the Feministing response.

I find this part amusing: "While most sociologists agree that women admitting to lust and wanting to be sexually empowered is a good thing, they see a problem with making exhibitionism the centerpiece of the wedding ceremony: it might crowd out other aspects of the marriage."

What else is the modern wedding if not an exhibition? Why else do people pay tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars for a one day event? Why else do women daydream their whole lives over the perfect, fairy tale wedding (whether or not she wears a "princess" dress or a slinky Vivienne Westwood gown)? Why else spend months painstakingly picking out linens, shoes, favors, invitations, flowers, etc.? I think Newsweek missed the mark here.