'Naked' wedding: a blessing or a disaster?

• Source: Global Times
• [17:01 December 24 2009]
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The poll also showed that 80 percent of male respondents like the idea of "naked weddings", but 70 percent of women were against it.

Meanwhile, some female respondents were willing to make some compromises.

A woman named "Duyiwei" said she could accept being "half naked" and gave a very vivid analogy: houses can be compared to clothes while cars and wedding rings are like hats and scarves. She explained that she can do without accessories but definitely can't do without clothes.

Although "naked wedding" is a buzzword of 2009, this phenomenon does not just belong to young couples born in the 1980s.

"It is nothing to be ashamed of to rent an apartment. In our parents' generation, they married 'naked' and started their life from scratch," web user "Xiaoya679" said.

"Naked wedding" has everything to do with the typical young Chinese couple's dream of owning a house.

"We don't want to empty our wallets to become slaves to a mortgage... I am still young and I hope I will see the day when the property market bubble bursts," wrote Li Fangchao in his story about "naked weddings".