While I pretty much agree with your assessment of these dresses, I did note a few misses about what constitutes a “wedding” dress. Pink is a perfectly nice color for a wedding dress and, in fact, up until Queen Victoria, brides wore rich colors and fabrics. Poorer brides wore their Sunday best dress. Until the 1940′s brides wore white dresses reflective of the current fashion. Then brides went back to the Victorian thing with the big skirts.

I also didn’t like Mariah’s dress (looked like that awful thing Diana wore), but in fairness, she wore it in the early 90′s, which was just a couple of years away from the 80′s–and boufant has been “in” and appropriate since forever. It was simply an ugly boufant.

The Dion (?–the Las Vegas singer) dress was obviously a copy of an 18th century dress, which is probably just fine if the wedding had a theme? I take it the writer doesn’t like themed weddings.

As for pink? Why SHOULD a bride wear white; particularly when the bride is over 21 or 30 or whatever? I remember the first time I saw an older woman in a white wedding gown–poofy, veil and all–I was flabergasted. In my day, that would have been a social faux paux of the worst order.