The white dress symbolizes purity, and it stands as the 'Holy Grail' for women all over to strive to become the perfect automato become what they think men find desirable, so he will want her more, and feel their lives to be incredibly meaningless for being single forever. If I got married, I will be wearing a blood-red 'survivor-style' torn dress, barefoot on the beach, with a Buddhist monk performing the rites. See the girlies nowadays, they still have the will to stay physically desirable but they're moving towards new horizons of that free love that knows no physical bounds and they don't care quite as much about being 'owned' and 'cared for' by someone else anymore. It's a great step in the advancement of independence of women. Something that makes me feel really really good and yummy inside... but some would say they wouldn't put the delicate flower on a 'pedestal like that'. "delicate flower"??