I do know it has become fashionable to spend a fortune on weddings. (Even
creating crucifying debt)
In that context, I suppose Ed Milibands low-key do was a change. And with their history they have a good chance of making it last.
These things are tricky because we have a very unequal country. And the "CUTS" which are to come will not really effect us all.
Do ostentation and poverty go hand in glove? Not very easily in my opinion