White Wedding Dress
As Wedding photographers, we come across mainly white wedding dresses than not! Women have always dreamed about their wedding day from when they were young girls. Prince charming whisking them away. I often get brides telling me about their perfect wedding they have been dreaming of for years. The wedding dress color of choice has always been white, well mostly. Don’t you ever wonder, why women are so particular about white and the reasons behind this.
Strangely enough, white has not always been the color of choice. Brides getting married in a white wedding dress hasn’t been around that long. It is believed that wearing white indicates a woman’s virtue. Typically you will find woman who had been married before, or who had kids outside of wedlock. There couldn’t be more contrast with today’s bride. Some brides have even got married in Black. Yes, black wedding dress.Not surprisingly, the white wedding dress came from a place full of legends, and where tradition is important. the white wedding dress was started in the English Monarchy. Queen Victoria was the first “celebrity” that was looked up too, who wore a white wedding gown. Because of her, the popularity of white dresses has become a true tradition among women around the world.
The marriage of Albert of Saxe and Queen Victoria in 1840, was not surprising. The gown she wore though caused quite a stir. It was considered flamboyant and did not start the white wedding gown tradition instantly. Many of the upper class women though, saw this as a unique fashion statement and had no issues in copying the Queen by marrying in white dresses.
A white wedding dress was also a way to show off. Brides that were well off wore whitet. It was a practice for the rich. The poor surely couldn’t afford to get married in a wedding dress that couldn’t be cleaned.Only the wealthy and vain women insisted on being married in white. Most women still married in dresses of different colors and styles after Queen Victoria’s fashion statement. During the Edwardian times however, the white wedding dress gained popularity once more when Coco Chanel unleashed its brand new design….. a knee-length wedding gown, with a huge train in none other than white.
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