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Wedding Dresses and Their Traditions

There are many different traditions associated with wedding dresses but some of the most common and oldest ones are those to do with the actual colour of the wedding dresses.

You may not be aware but special wedding dresses were not actually worn until Victorian times. Up until this point, the wedding dresses were simply the best outfit that the bride owned.

It was Queen Victoria who launched the tradition of white wedding dresses. She decided that she preferred white to the traditional silver wedding dresses that previous royals had worn.

Of course white wedding dresses symbolise purity and virginity but many modern brides prefer to wear other colored wedding dresses.

There is an old rhyme that provides guidance to brides-to-be and is meant to help them decide on the most appropriate colors for wedding dresses:

Married in White, you have chosen right,
Married in Grey, you will go far away,
Married in Black, you will wish yourself back,
Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead,
Married in Green, ashamed to be seen,
Married in Blue, you will always be true,
Married in Pearl, you will live in a whirl,
Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow,
Married in Brown, you will live in the town,
Married in Pink, you spirit will sink.

The origins of this guide for wedding dresses are unclear but one of the funniest is associated with avoiding green wedding dresses.

Green is meant to be an unlucky colour and should be avoided when it comes to wedding dresses however it has deeper implications. Green wedding dresses are linked to grass stains and imply that the wearer has loose morals!

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Since I'm going for ablack wedding dress. What kind of decoration and colour theme should I go for. My mum think's it'll be too black if I have black decorations but I'm not sure if I should stick with a few colours or many. I was wondering what everyone else thinks. any suggestions and ideas? Thankyou ! http://www.theweddingstyle.com/ Since I'm going for ablack wedding dress. What kind of decoration and colour theme should I go for. My mum think's it'll be too black if I have black decorations but I'm not sure if I should stick with a few colours or many. I was wondering what everyone else thinks. any suggestions and ideas? Thankyou ! http://www.theweddingstyle.com/

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Why Do Non- Virgin WOMEN Wear WHITE Wedding Dresses.........?
Why is it that non-virgin women feel that they have the right to wear white when they finally decide to get married after years & years & years & years of having pre-marital sex & shaking up with their boyfriends? I recently went to a wedding where the bride had been living with her bf for 8 yrs & already had two kids by him...yet she still wore a pure white wedding gown.....The white gown is supposed to symbolize a bride's purity & virginal essence. I feel that it destroys the traditional purpose of wearing white...when the bride is FAR from being a virgin. Shouldn't the non-virginal bride wear a black wedding dress or something?.... @ "huh"- you are definitely right bro!! lol @"huh"- HAHAHAHA!!! yea I saw that on t.v & just watched it now!! Hilarious! @DM- The groom doesn't always wear white..sometimes they wear black or any other color.....btw it's not silliness or being "judgmental"..im keeping it real. Just because our society's morals are breaking down & most folks have an "anything goes" mentality....doesn't make it right. @Anonymous- don't kid yourself. "White" symbolizes a bride's purity. Stop it. #cousins- Right on!! LoL

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Black wedding dresses, a good idea?
It seems to me that these days a lot of designers make black wedding dresses, although I do think that its pretty creative.....is it a good idea?...I mean. who'd want to wear black to their wedding???

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