Period Wedding Dresses

Modern brides-to-be have so many beautiful and unique options when it comes to true romance wedding dresses. There is no better way to bring romance into your wedding and on your bridal look than wearing a period wedding dress that can make you look even more feminine, stylish, distinctive and unique.

Most if wedding dress designers and makers today are looking to add more old-charm, sensitiveness, natural beauty, classy elegance and century beauty to the wedding dress of our times. Is this a bad or a good thing? We consider it to be a very inspired idea, especially because many brides-to-be are looking for historical, vintage, medieval and old-fashioned wedding dress styles that can make them appear more chic, more dainty, original and romantic.

There are many period wedding dress styles that go from French renaissance, Elizabethan renaissance, Italian renaissance, Tudor renaissance wedding dresses to Edwardian, Celtic and Medieval, Gothic, Fantasy or Pagan wedding dresses. Any of these eras makes the perfect inspiration for a period wedding dress that can easily bring the past spirit into the present.

If you fancy any ancient or vintage clothing style and accessories like cloaks, corsets, coats, doublets or nay other historical millinery and jewelry than you should definitely go with a period wedding dress that will only increase the level of the old-charm beauty that you’re looking for. Most of the period wedding dress designs were usually hand-sewed using various patterns and motifs.

So if you consider yourself to be a skilled sewer and want to create your own wedding dress you can always search for inspirational period wedding dresses and clothing in vintage boutiques, magazines, consignments, thrift shops or any other second hand stores that provide with such vintage clothing. Look for those theatrical and period film costumes, steel boned corsets, slinky skirts, crinolines bustles and different vintage bodices that you can choose to make your main inspiration for creating your custom-made period wedding dress. If you love the Elizabethan era when women used to wear full-hooped skirts and tidy bustles, beautifully adorned with period beadings and pearls you can opt for this style.

Any bride dreaming on a fairy-tale wedding where they can pose in a princess bride can choose to go with a renaissance-inspired period wedding dress that can make them look like a glamorous chic bride. Many brides are usually opting for an Irish-fantasy inspired period wedding dress because it is pretty affordable, romantic and fancy. If you’re looking for a simpler renaissance period wedding dress you can opt for those ensembles consisting of breeches and peasant shirt. In case you’re hoping for a more original and historical bridal look, you can opt for a very exquisite custom-made leather doublets.

Written by WeddingDresses, date May 11, 2010 in Various design
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demi says:
January 28, 2011 at 9:49 am
I am not a good sewer, but I know someone who is. On the contrary, I am quite skilled at drawing. Not too much, but at least as much as I need to make myself understood. I even created several wedding dresses designs ever since i began thinking of my wedding. And the way I did it was choosing models and select those things I liked from them. I Kind of did what designers do: combine styles and periods of time to create original dresses. Just that I inspire myself both from modern and old times, as I don’t want a very old fashioned dress and I’m not that creative. So now I just need to decide whether to have both corset and crinolines or to stick to just a corset and a very fluid skirt.
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