Wedding Dresses

Historical Wedding Dresses

The history of wedding dresses dates since the ancient Egyptians first recognized the marriage as a sacred and legal bonding between a man and a woman. But the bridal dress was seen as something unique, individual and feminine since the Queen Victoria married in a splendid white wedding dress.




That was the moment when people understood the importance of the wedding dress and started to respect it in future wedding events. Women started to wear white wedding dresses according to the trend set by the Queen in 1849 and ever since white has been the main color of the bridal wears.

The white historical wedding dress was considered to be a inspired expression of what it meant the purity, innocence, fidelity, sacred rituals, spirituality and chastity. With these being set, brides usually elected this color to get married in, but any exception and stray from the rule was permitted. Different colors for the wedding dress were also accepted all over the world where women used to wear on the big day whatever dress and color of dress they had in their closet.

Although the principal and the most popular color for wedding dresses was white women who couldn’t allow buying a white material would have wore anything they had around. In fact, white was the color of high-class status as well and only wealthy families could afford to “sponsor” their daughters with the privilege of wearing pure white on the special wedding day. But as we said, women started to wear lots of other colors on the wedding day. At first because they haven’t got the necessary wedding budget to purchase a white dress that would have only be worn once and never after, and then other colors seem to attract more and more followers among wealthy brides.

For example, purple and gold were the next in line right after the white and its meanings, especially because purple and gold were sometimes viewed as the colors of royalty, high status and wealthy situation. While the gold and purple were considered to be the main color of richness in matters of wedding dress, then white started to gain and remain at the first significance of innocence, chastity and purity. Black was also considered to be an interesting color that could be worn in different occasions such as funerals, evening banquets or other intimate festivities. But in general black was considered to be a color of sobriety, mourning and death.

Depending on each country, region, culture, religion, tradition, rituals and customs, the historical wedding dresses differ in color and significance. Therefore each color wore a distinctive meaning and the symbols were actually very important when a bride chooses a dress. In Morocco the traditional wedding dress were yellow or green signifying protection form the bad spirits and good luck, in China the wedding dress was and still is red, the color of happiness, power and luck, in Israel brides wore white or blue, to symbolize the mystical powers and purity and so on.

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