Where does the wedding dress come from?

The wedding dress is the dress worn by the bride during the wedding ceremony and reception. The wedding dress can refer to the dress accessories worn on the body, but it can also include the veil and the bouquet. The color and style of the wedding dress depends on various factors, including culture, religion and fashion trends. Wedding dresses come from the West and are different from the traditional Chinese dresses, which are mainly red in color.

The wedding dress of the bride at the wedding of Louis XII of France to Anne of Brittany in 1499 was the first documented wedding dress. The traditional wedding dress is usually white, and the tradition of using white dates back to the wedding of Queen Victoria of England in 1840. The Queen wore a white wedding dress with an 18-foot train, and the official photo was widely published. Many brides wished to wear similar dresses, and the tradition continues to this day, and the length of the train is a symbol of the couple's wealth, with Princess Diana of the United Kingdom marrying in the 1980's in a dress that was approximately 480 feet long.

Before the Victorian era, wedding dresses could be any color except black (for mourning) or red (associated with prostitution). White wedding dresses represented inner purity and childlike innocence, and later evolved into a symbol of virginity. In the 1920s, after World War I, women's social status changed, and the style of wedding dresses changed dramatically, with short dresses appearing. in the 1940s, because of World War II, it was not easy to make wedding dresses, so brides' wedding dresses became simpler and plainer, or they borrowed ready-made dresses from friends and relatives, and many mothers treated their own wedding dresses as heirlooms for their daughters to wear when they got married. Many mothers also keep their wedding dresses as family heirlooms, allowing their daughters to wear their own wedding dresses at the time of the wedding.

Western and eastern couples are different in their avoidance of wedding dresses. In the United States, the groom is not allowed to see the woman's wedding dress before the wedding ceremony, so when picking out a wedding dress, the woman will go to the selection with her sister or a female friend, which is why American couples are mostly photographed at the wedding site.

In the Oriental society, there is no such taboo, Taiwan and Hong Kong wedding companies in addition to providing dress rental, but also extends the wedding photography industry, to provide exclusive studio, photographer and wedding-related services, to help new couples to shoot wedding photos, and design into a book and thank you card, placed in the wedding site for guests to turn, to take a reading.

In traditional weddings, the veil, which is worn over the bride's head, is usually removed by the groom after the rings are exchanged and the priest or witnesses announce that the two are legally married. In the past, only first-time brides were allowed to wear a veil, not those who remarried, but many people are no longer aware of this custom.

The origin of the white wedding dress: Although weddings have existed in countries all over the world since ancient times, the history of brides wearing wedding dresses at weddings is less than 200 years old. The bride wears a white dress with a trailing hemline was originally a Catholic ceremony dress. As some countries in ancient Europe is the unity of church and state, people must be married to the church to accept the priest or pastor's prayers and blessings, so that can be considered a formal legal marriage, so the bride put on a white ceremony dress to God to show sincerity and purity. In the West in the 19th century, before the girls got married when the bride wore a dress without uniform color specifications, until 1820 years ago, white has gradually become a wedding dress color widely used. This is because the British Queen Victoria wore a white elegant wedding dress on the wedding. Since then, the white wedding dress has become a formal wedding dress, nowadays, some people do not understand the origins of the wedding dress, their own ingenuity, the bride's wedding dress made of pink or light blue color, to show that gorgeous. In fact, according to Western custom, only remarried women, the wedding dress can be pink or lake blue and other colors, to show the difference with the first marriage

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