why bridegowns are white?
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Used to be like a symbol of purity.... (but no one is a pure vergin anymore when they are getting married... but the dresses are still white for some reason)
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Noor, your assumption is just not always correct.  Now, there are some brides who just don't have good taste.  Becoming a bride-to-be does not automatically grant one any added taste that they did not previously possess!  Also possible is the fact that their bridesmaids' body types are so different that the bride is trying to find a dress for all sizes.  That is often difficult, if not impossible.\n\nFor my wedding in 1998, my bridesmaids' gowns were lovely understated, but elegant, lilac sleveless crepe straight gowns, with a satin bodice, and a shoulder wrap of matching satin-backed crepe.  Worn with opera length gloves, they were simple and elegant, and appropriate for all types of formal functions.  By shortening the length to knee-length, they would then have an exquisite cocktail dress to be worn without the gloves.  I was so happy with their gowns that I wish I had bought one for myself.  They, too, were extremely happy with the selection, and have told me so.  (If you look at my wedding photos at my 360 page, you'll be able to see for yourself.)\n\nMy gift to my attendants were their shimmering hosiery, their gloves, and handmade earrings and necklaces that I personally crafted for each one.  They were made of  clear yet opalescent pearl-sized beads, that were classic and can be worn for years.\n\nIf a bride is thoughtful, considerate, and plans well enough ahead of time, she'll be able to decide on bridesmaid attire that will make the majority happy.  You'll never relaly please everyone....unless you are as lucky as I was.
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Only the bride gets to wear white.
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Her First Wedding\n\nAttending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?"\n\n"Because white is the color of happiness, and this is the happiest day of her life.", her mother replied. \n\nThe child thought about this for a moment, then said, "So why is the groom wearing black?"
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It's just a culture-specific thing. In China, their funeral color is white.
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White things are white because their chemical composition is balanced in such a way that it reflects the full spectrum of colors. The air has oxygen in it. Oxygen is very reactive with a lot of chemicals. As oxygen molecules bond with the chemicals in the white substance, the light is absorbed in different ways. Some wave lengths are reflected and others are absorbed. We commonly see this as a yellowing effect, but fading can result in other colors as well.
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They are white!!!!!!!!
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The wedding gown is unique. Along with baptism and burial, marriage is one of the three great public occasions in a person's life, and the only one at which the principals can fully appreciate the glory of their central role. For the bride, more than the groom, it is Her Big Day. Throughout history, women have tried to make their wedding dress special, to suit the festive occasion, to make the beautiful bride more beautiful and the not so beautiful at least splendid to look at. \nhttp://www.geocities.com/e2davies/brides.html\n\nIn modern tradition, the color of western-culture wedding dresses is white. Used in this sense, 'white' or 'wedding white' includes creamy shades such as eggshell, ecru and ivory. The popularity of this color can be traced back to 1840 and the marriage of Queen Victoria to Albert of Saxe-Coburg. The Queen chose to wear a white gown for the event. The official wedding portrait photograph was widely published and many brides opted for a similar dress in honor of that choice. The tradition continues today. (See white wedding.) Prior to the Victorian era a bride was married in any colour except black (the colour of mourning) or red (which was connected with prostitutes). The white dress came to symbolize purity of heart and the innocence of childhood. Later attribution suggested that the colour white symbolized virginity.\n\nMany wedding dresses in China are colored red, the traditional colour of good luck. In modern Chinese weddings, particularly in Western countries, the bride usually opts for the white Western dress or changes from a red gown to a white gown later in the day.\n\nAlso in India the traditional colour of female wedding garments is red. With Indians in Western countries, the bride often wears the red sari at the wedding ceremony and change into traditional Indian wear afterwards (like Lengha, choli etc).\n\nHistory of the wedding Dress:\nhttp://www.fromtimespast.com/wedding.htm
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David's Bridal have a new catolog called color expression it lets you make colors with your dress and different stlyes of bridesmaids dresses. Since you are having a fall wedding you may want to go with dark colors.\nSage and Cream\nBlack and White\nCrandberry and Off white\nWine and Cream\nTry these sites
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The Wedding Ensemble\n\nOnce the bride chose her wedding day, a prerogative conferred upon her by the groom, she could begin planning her trousseau, the most important item of which was her wedding dress.\n\nBrides have not always worn white for the marriage ceremony. In the 16th and 17th centuries for example, girls in their teens married in pale green, a sign of fertility. A mature girl in her twenties wore a brown dress, and older women even wore black. From early Saxon times to the 18th century, only poorer brides came to their wedding dressed in white--a public statement that she brought nothing with her to the marriage. Other brides wore their Sunday best.\n\nColor of the gown was thought to influence one's future life.\n\nWhite--chosen right\nBlue--love will be true\nYellow--ashamed of her fellow\nRed--wish herself dead\nBlack--wish herself back\nGrey--travel far away\nPink--of you he'll always think\nGreen-ashamed to be seen\n\nEver since Queen Victoria wed in 1840, however, white has remained the traditional color for wedding gowns and bouquets. A woman then used her dress for Court Presentation after marriage, usually with a different bodice.
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IF it was my wedding, I would use multi colored dresses (different than the brides color of course) Suggest that you preapprove color / dress before purchase is made. This way, both of you can have the best of both worlds. Maybe they can use the dress for another occasion at a later date. (No more than 1 of each color though) Multi-colored flowers also.
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Take it off or wear a white tee
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White for it's sterility and cleanliness.\nBlack for it's sultry and seductive appeal.\nRed for it's vibrancy and love for life.
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This is the best I could find...\n\nHere comes bride\nAll dressed in white\nHere comes the bride\nWith the groom by\nHer(?) side.
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It's one of those unwritten rules to show that's it's time to get out the darker fall and winter colors. However, since that unwritten rule was started things have changed a little. White is now a popular color to wear in the fall and winter as long as you're wearing something with a fall/winter material. Like a white sweater or white corduroy pants.\n\nSo, all in all, whites an all year color in the U.S.
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The "white" is caused by the crystalization of water molecules when they are frozen.  Light refracts off these crystals in a full spectrum (so you get white.)  When the molecules free again after getting warm, the light no longer refracts off in the full spectrum removing the white color.\n\nBTW white light is made of millions of colors...
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Fall with a deep red would look really nice...like almost a crimson color.  I'm in a wedding this fall and the bride is doing deep red roses and her flower girl has a white dress that is full on the bottom with a huge crimson ribbon around the middle that takes up her torso.  SO cute.  Just don't book your wedding much later than August if you're doing anything outside.  A friend of mine did a Sept. wedding with outside pics and it just so happened to be freezing that day.  Her pics turned out pretty bad and we complained (under our breath) the whole time.