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Mon 11 Nov 2009Ten things the decade gave consumers - for good or ill
BIG WEDDINGS: Chocolate fountains? Check. Ice sculptures? Check. Designer outfits and a €5,000 dress? Check. Change out of €50,000? What? Are you nuts?
The clearest sign that we’d lost the run of ourselves during the boom were our lavish weddings. We blew such huge sums on “The. Best. Day. Of. Our. Lives” that the wedding industry realised it could charge whatever it wanted once the W-word was spoken. It all got so overblown that wedding planning became as viable a profession as banking.
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