Writer Thinks Affordable Wedding Dresses Threaten ‘Sanctity of a Wedding’

New Zealand writer Rachel Wells spent $5,000 on a "silver-sequined and custom-designed" wedding gown that made her feel "like a princess, or more accurately, a red-carpet-ready Hollywood starlet." Good for her, right?

But apparently, she is pissed at all y'all with your mass-produced, under $5,000 fast fashion wedding dresses. In an essay for the New Zealand Herald, Wells tries to makes the argument that affordable H&M and ASOS bridal collections are destroying the "sanctity of a wedding." She actually says that! These are her concerns!

Here's the quote:

I am well aware that not every bride can afford to, or would even want to, spend thousands of dollars on a bespoke wedding dress, and I'm certainly not suggesting they should, but I can't help but feeling that wedding dresses that cost less than your weekly grocery bill and are manufactured in a conveyor-belt fashion in a faraway factory for even less, somewhat trivialises the significance and sanctity of a wedding.

This essay might be a late April Fools' joke, or fodder for the internet's outrage machine, but there are so many good quotes to pull out here.

After all, where is the sense of occasion - or even, importance - when the dress you walk down the aisle in costs less than the amount your guests spent on your brand new toaster or NutriBullet?