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 blue” rhyme that endures to this day.
Medieval brides from well-to-do families wore rich colors and luxurious fabrics, like furs, velvet and silk. Those from middle class families wore stuff that was a copy of the elegant styles of the richer class. The trend continued for a few years and the wedding dress became a symbol of the social status of the family. The more material used, the more sleeves, the longer the train, the richer the bride’s family was assumed to be.
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