Posted by ctolingli on May 31, 2010
White, as the symbol of purity, seems to be the eternal color for wedding dress. But, surprisingly, history tells us something else. So, when and how did white become the favored color for wedding dress?
Before white wedding attire, people during meddle age would prefer bright and luxurious color for their wedding dress. Because effervescent colors symbolized the happiness of the bride.
The trend of white wedding attire was started by Queen Victoria. It was in 1840 when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe. Wearing a white wedding gown, she brought a big, but pleasant surprise to everyone. While there were some who preferred vibrant colors, white definitely had seeped into the minds of people. Soon, brides from all over Europe and America began wearing white wedding dresses as well. By the end of the century, white had become the color of the wedding dress. Various trends and styles were adopted to make the dress a perfect bliss on the Day.
However, some changes happened latterly. During the Great Depression and World War II, the eternal white dress was replaced by the church dress. People thought that it was not appropriate
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Posted by ctolingli on May 28, 2010
Wedding ceremony has always been accounted as the most important occasion to everyone, especially to the ladies. Some girls would spend a long time for choosing the wedding dress for this most important ceremony. Because this, to most girls, would be the only chance for them to put on the wedding dress and be the most beautiful bride.
As the wedding dress is so fascinating to girls, do you ever wonder about the emergence of wedding dress?
The first documented wedding gown was worn by Princess Philippa, daughter of Henry IV, at her marriage to Erik of Denmark in 1406. During the medieval times, marriages started to mean the bondage between not only two individuals, but also between two families, two businesses and even two countries. Brides of this era cautiously dressed as they singularly represented the whole community.
As effervescent colors symbolized the happiness of the bride, they used to dress up in brightly colored wedding garments. And blue, not white, was the symbol of purity in the Middle Ages, expressed at wedding ceremonies by a band of blue ribbon worn by both bride and groom. It inspired the “something
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Posted by ctolingli on May 22, 2010
Wearing the white wedding dress, her face was covered with happiness.
All of the most outstanding Makeup artists, Photographers, ect. rearranged their schedule to take wedding pictures just for her- a bride with no bridegroom.
Even though there is no bridegroom to take her hands and say that “you are my most beautiful bride”. We have to say she is the most beautiful bride at that moment.
She enjoyed that moment so such. Because putting on the wedding dress
is her biggest wish and also her last wish.
To all the others girls, putting on the wedding dress might also be their biggest wish. And that wish will come true sooner or later in their life. However, suffered with the incurable disease, she has no time to wait the sooner or later.
At the end of her life, she confronted death with no fear. She resolutely made her decision to donate her body for medical research. And at the same time, she disclosed her last wish- to take some wedding pictures.
As there is no much time for her, everybody’s doing their best to fulfill her last wish and let her
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