The Best Magazine Articles Ever (2012)
I would include "The Wedding Merchants" by Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic in Feb 2001.<p>All about how it's not actually traditional for weddings to be the expensive fancy extravaganzas they are today, and who made them that way and how they did it.<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-wedding-merchants/302092/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-wed...</a>