I told my friend if I was ever to get married my wedding dress would be green, purple, or maybe blue. But she freaked out and said that it's tradition to choose white.
2006-08-15 07:59:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Depends on what tradition you follow. The white wedding dress was introduced by Queen Victoria and symbolized wealth because only royalty could afford a white dress that would only ever be worn once. Therefore it has nothing to do with purity or virginity...blue was considered the color of purity until white took it's place. Then everyone else followed suit after that.
Prior to that though, women got married in their best dress that they already owned which would be any color, red, blue, green, etc.
2006-08-15 08:12:15 · answer #1 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 35⤊ 0⤋
The only reason it is "tradition" is because Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress and after that it was the fashion and now its the norm. Before that everyone just wore their Sunday best dress no matter what colour it was. I sure as hell won't be wearing white. My wedding dress is gonna be red and gold. So you do whatever you like honey and don't let some old dead queen put any pressure on your choices.
2006-08-15 17:36:03 · answer #2 · answered by bushbaby_rsa 2 · 13⤊ 0⤋
white shows pure and it started way back in the day where it was when u get married u was a virgin, virgin being pure. get it but now and days u can get married in what ever color u want just cant find a wedding dress in the color maybe get it dyed if u dont want the traditional wedding dress. if u do that shop off the Clarence rack, yes u can get some nice ones off the clarence rack i did and the only thing wrong with it was it had a small tear on it and my mom fixed it (seen the same dress somewhere else for 1000 and got mine for 500)
2006-08-15 15:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by twib_tch69069 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
wait wait if your wedding you are able to choose if you want fuchsia
or green go right ahead it's your dress your day you wear any color your heart desires,
2006-08-15 15:17:28 · answer #4 · answered by LIZA P 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It's traditional because back in the old days, women were considered to still be a virgin and white represented "pure". Now, women are wearing more ivory or cream colored dresses.. still in the white color range, but not. I believe that a women wants to wear something other than white.. go for it! It's her wedding day.
2006-08-15 15:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by kat81886 2 · 5⤊ 6⤋
It's only a very recent tradition. Queen Victoria started it. You can have any color you want, hon.
2006-08-15 21:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by Etiquette Gal 5 · 11⤊ 0⤋
It's your wedding day, wear what you like.
2006-08-15 20:53:24 · answer #7 · answered by C's Wifey 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
White symbolizes purity and virginity
2006-08-15 15:16:51 · answer #8 · answered by Nat the Brat 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Because white typically stands for purity and innocence. Traditionally, going into a marriage, the bride is supposed to be a virgin and pure...so white is used to symbolize that.
2006-08-15 15:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by Meggo 2 · 7⤊ 6⤋
because traditionally white symbolizes purity, a women was meant to be pure when she got married, now it doesn't matter, but doesn't everyone look pretty in white?
2006-08-15 15:10:39 · answer #10 · answered by isaqt 1 · 1⤊ 6⤋