Wedding Dresses

Wedding dresses are clothings worn by brides during their wedding day. Traditional wedding dresses in the western culture are usually white in colour. However, in the past, people prefer to wear colourful dresses for their wedding. These wedding dresses also come in different design and style. The materials of various wedding dresses also vary from one wedding dress to another. Although silk and lace are usually the material used in making wedding dresses. There are frothy and lacy wedding dresses and there are also simple wedding dresses.

Origin of modern day wedding dresses

Although people usually associate the colour white to wedding dresses, the white trend in wedding dresses is apractice not very far in the past. Brides before the 1800s actually wore colourful wedding dresses. During the early regency period, brides, especially those coming from royal family, used colourful wedding dresses as symbols of their high social status. In France, white was considered a colour for mourning, so it is unlikely to be the colour of wedding dresses of the nobility. It was Mary, Queen of Scots, who first used white as the colour for her wedding dress. But it was Queen Victoria, who made white as the colour of wedding dresses a trend. She wore it in her wedding with Albert of Saxe-Colburg. The photographs of the wedding were widely publicized. Since then, many brides opt to have the colour white for their wedding dresses. As the years pass, white was also associated with the concept of the bride's purity.

Wedding dresses in other countries

In the other parts of the globe, the western style white wedding dresses are also becoming popular. Although, there are brides who prefer to wear their traditional colourful clothing, there are also many who are now using the western wedding dresses. In China and in Vietnam, for instance, most brides still prefer to wear their traditional wedding dresses that are coloured red. Yet there are many brides in these countries that prefer white frothy wedding dresses and changed only to their traditional wedding dresses after the wedding ceremony.

Western-style wedding dresses today

Today, wedding dresses also come in variations of white. There are actually cream and ecru wedding dresses. Until now, one can still say that in the west, white wedding dresses are still favored by many brides. Although, white lost its symbolism for purity.

These days, some wedding dresses are really daring. Although, may brides still employ the traditional colour for wedding dresses, the patters of wedding dresses are now more revealing. Wedding dresses today also cost a fortune. Brides today have the options whether to buy new wedding dresses or use the wedding dresses worn by their parents or grandparents.