The Colorful History of Wedding Gowns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2024
- Many of us envision a bride in a pristine white gown when we think of wedding attire, a symbol of purity and new beginnings. But did you know this hasn't always been the tradition? Dive into the rich tapestry of history, and you'll find that wedding dresses have donned a vibrant palette of colors across different cultures and eras. From deep blues symbolizing the Virign Mary to golden hues representing prosperity, historical brides often chose colors imbued with meaning and cultural significance. The white wedding dress, iconic as it may seem, is a relatively recent phenomenon in the grand timeline of nuptial celebrations.
The use of bright yellow for the veil is so lovely, "torches bringing light into the home." I LOVE that
That probably has some connection to Hestia or Vesta. Its gotta be.
@@beemel5734 Yeah this does seem legit tho I haven't looked into it.
Indeed, Vesta was the keeper of the home, so a bride in Rome wore flame colors and even dyed their palms and soles orange sometimes (possibly to mimic ash on the hands, once again, a la Vesta)@@beemel5734
Keepers of the hearth. A womans' epitaph was often no more than; 'She weaved wool and kept the hearth'
Like the song, "ain't no sunshine when she's gone".
Fun fact: The dude Victoria married was Albert, a german dude. One christmas they let newspapers take pictures of the family in front of a christmas tree, wich at the time was a common christmas item in Germany. The picture made it's way throughout the globe, establishing the christmas tree as a tradition amongst the british empire. Victoria and Albert were influencers LONG before the Internet.
They seriously were though-
She's such an icon, we just couldn't find a better name to give to her era, her husband's piercing is now named after him, and they informed several sensibilities we still hold dear to this day!
It was an engraving, not a picture photo - It’s a marvellous little image!
You forgot to mention Albert sent them to schools and army barracks - That man was truly a visionary!
@@purplepedantry
I still can't get over the piercing lol
@@erinw.9256what piercing may i ask?
"albert piercing" is something i expect google to have few results on
@@purplepedantry…and also the worst drug dealer in history
That yellow veil was genuinely so beautiful, I like the meaning of it and now i’m imagining a garden wedding with a yellow veil and a sunflower crown. I’m sold
At first I was like 😬 but you just put a great backdrop and context on it, I’m sold!
Although I’m not a giant fan of the meaning behind it. If they replaced “home” with “marriage” or something, then we’d be cooking with gas instead of some regressive caveman shit
Me too girl! I don't even have a partner however I know the tree I want to get married under in my favorite park😂 a yellow veil will be perfect!
@@Sarah-re7cg I mean, home, family, what’s the difference?
@@Sarah-re7cgsomeone dubbing the word home as “regressive caveman shit” is something I never thought I’d hear in my life.
My mom got married in a dark, wine-red dress, with matching red lipstick. So pretty against her dark hair and fair complexion. As a kid, I remember asking why she didn't wear a white dress, and she said she just doesn't look good in white, and I honestly adore that she chose to wear a dress she felt good in, rather than feeling pressured into wearing something just because of "tradition".
Your mom sounds cool
Red is the go-to for Bengali brides, as it's considered sacred in Hinduism. ❤
especially when that "tradition" doesn't have any religious backing and if it did it would probably make MORE sense to wear red or gold for their symbolism
It's funny because that is tradition in most of south Asia lol
I already decided that I wanna wear an African style dress to my wedding if I ever do get married
So what you’re saying is Queen Victoria did the equivalent of a modern goth wearing a black dress to her wedding. I love it.
Ha! I love this! Also, I love your profile picture. The amount of pink speaks to my soul❤️🩷
I love that mentality! Literally tho I kinda hate that crazy people took it to mean purity or something. Like purity is cool and all (like if you’re religion or you personally value it, by all means), but some people are weirdly obsessed with it and those are normally the people that want to be offended and look for things to be offended by.
@@maddiemcnugget1076 i feel the same. I understand and respect the sentiment but in my country white is strictly prohibited during festivals and reserved for funerals and mourning so it's weird for me.
And the association with Queen Victoria says a lot as when we think of the black clothing of "Victorian" times, that was after Albert died, and Britannia mourned with her.
@@fetishartist137
There's a reason we use the same term for Art and Architecture in her day to also mean people who see the brokenness of the world and find the beauty of the dark parts.
I was raised in “white dress culture” and had planned for a white dress all the way up until we got to the dress shop and the woman fitting me saw me olive green theme and put me in a green dress. My mom, sister and mother in law all cried when they saw me and I matched the theme perfectly. My husband wore a white and green suit and the bridal party wore creme dresses.
Ooo I love the flip in dress color norms between you and the bridesmaids!
Sounds so beautiful 😭💚
That sounds so pretty. Tasteful, creative and artistic. Wish people used more original ideas for weddings!
Omg!! This man is so beautiful!! I want to put my face next to the arch of his foot!!!
This is the "Grandfather Effect" where if you ask your parents and they say this is the way it is, and then you ask the oldest person you probably know (your grandparents) and they say that it is also the way it was when they were young, then that feels like forever. All it takes is 2 generations to make something feels like an ancient tradition.
So the internet has perhaps another decade or two to be grandfathered..?
Why does the internet have to label everything an effect or paradox
@@DevPatel-hg3ywit's just a label for a phenomenon, phenomenons often referred as "effect".
@@DevPatel-hg3ywwhen there is an effect or paradox, that's usually what people will call it
@@DevPatel-hg3ywthat phenomenon is much, much older than the internet. Your lack of interest in the proper history of things, is not the internets fault.
White is still the traditional color for funerals (and similar) in multiple cultures
Like China! XD
@@clooudiskyIndia too
And the Philippines (at least, in most regions, I think)
In Morocco widows wear white. They say it's Islamic but not everybody does it. In some regions they wear black.
@@sparklemotion8377Bruh there is nothing Islamic about widows wearong white, tehse people istg
I absolutely love Indian wedding clothing! It's always so beautiful. Lots of rich colors with gorgeous embellishments! Indian brides are always stunning!
Hindu weddings usually are expected to be vibrant so the bride wears colors varying from red, orange, yellow, green, pink etc. Only black or Grey colors are not worn by anyone, be it the couple or the Guests. There's many Hindu rituals that happen which are conducted by a Priest who recited Mantras. Now of course wedding customs vary in different parts of India but in a Tamil Hindu wedding, usually the husband ties the blessed nuptial thread around the wife's neck and then they walk around the sacred fire with held hands and then seek the blessings of the respective groom and bride's parents. Then many other austerities take place depending on the region. Usually the couple visits the temple after the above stated ceremony. Sometimes the wedding itself takes place in the temple. There's plenty of music. In the traditional style we have an ensemble playing the Nadhaswaram, Mridangam, Thavil etc where they play religious prayers and Carnatic songs. During the tying of the nuptial the fast piece called the Gettimelam is played and the priest chants a specific verse(Mangalyam Thanthunanena Mamajeevana Hetuna......). Also the nuptial is passed on to the guests for blessings before tying. And during the tying the guests shower the couple with flower petals. The bride wears a colorful saree with Gold jewelery while the groom wears a white Dhoti/Veshti and white Shirt. Also there's a pre wedding engagement called the Nichyadhartham where the families of the groom and bride exchange gifts and officiate the engagement with the priest. The invitations are then handed out after the to-be-couple exchanges the rings.
It's a very diverse thing and there are many more customs in the Tamil tradition alone, let alone from all states of India one can imagine how diverse it'd be. Another interesting fact is that the tying of the nuptial takes place at a said timing which is said to be the auspicious hour which may be in the early morning at 3-4 am sometimes or even on the afternoon depending on the day. In some Tamil styles, the husband and wife sit on a special swing as a metaphor to their togetherness for eternity.
The region I'm from in india women wear Red lehenga choli with gold embellishments in their weddings (not sarees)
They _CAN_ wear a colour other than Red, (never black , white, silver or gray) but the elderly women will definitely show their apprehension lol
Hindu weddings are always about happiness and prosperous
@KingAlphaOmega while growing up, my neighbors were Hindu. They had 3 children and all 3 had arranged marriages. The two oldest went back to India to meet their future spouse and get married. Then they came back to the US. The youngest child refused. He met someone, got married and took off. His parents were so upset and they didn't talk for years, but they mended their relationships. This was in the late 70's when they all got married. I was actually surprised that arranged marriages were still a thing but it still is going on to this day.
I worked with a girl who was getting tired of never finding Mr. Right, she's Hindu also, and she finally told her parents that they can find her a husband and arrange everything. She did and so far she's very happy. She also had the most beautiful wedding attire, red and lots of gold!!
My wife had the most adorable flower print swing dress you ever saw at our wedding, it wasn’t white, but she is the most beautiful woman in the world, and that dress definitely shared that title that day.
This is such a beautiful thing to say about your loved one! All the best to you both 🩷
You are absolutely lovely and I bet your wife is just as sweet. The way you speak about her shows how much you treasure her in your life. I hope she knows how lucky she is, because we know you feel quite fortunate too!! ❤ This gives me hope for my fiance and our kids' future! Thank you for spreading that love all the way to us.
🙏 Wishing you both happiness, good health, and peace . 🙏
Aww I hope y'all have a wonderful marriage! ❤
@@ShapeshiftingForestFae going on 6 years so far, and couldn’t be happier
Solid comment and solid username. I love reading comments like this ❤ all the best to you both
I'm Chinese and our wedding dresses are traditionally red, as that's the luckiest color in our culture. I dream of having a custom red and gold wedding dress (and I hope I could even make it myself, sewing is one of my hobbies).
That would be the coolest, wearing a dress you yourself made in your wedding. ❤ Hope you make that happen!
Wedding dresses are traditionally red in Pakistan too,
Also red being a lucky color is so cool
And best of luck 🤞
Whereas white is for mourning
In India it's red too
It would be so lovely if Chinese people went back to their various beautiful traditions and traditional garments, especially for wedding traditions. Westernised homogenised weddings are so boring.
My wedding dress was brown with a Celtic knot design for the trim. It was a fall outdoor wedding so it was appropriate imo 😄 My grandmothers was a teal dress in velvet. Just her nicest dress I think.
We have photos of our great grandmothers wearing black wedding dresses. 🖤
Goth Grandmas
@@tomrogue13 Gothmas
@@supercelllover7695Gomas
Black was worn in our family because they were farmers and white would have gotten dirty easier. The wedding dress would have been new and worn on Sundays until it wore. Then it would be a work and go to town dress until it became raggs.
@@dolliscrawford280 I believe mine were farmers too. (But still well off enough to have their photo taken) Norway, early 1900s.
“may be much more recent developments than we think” is my motto for most things people are unwilling to change due to “tradition”
People only cling to traditions when it benefits them or to use it as a weapon.
@@Lillyswords
Seriously!
Just try looking at the background of most elements in modern Purity Culture. You won't get much further than a century ago at most unless you're really reaching.
The same goes for Nationalism, Yank 'Patriotism' & Evangelicalism, modern Theocratic Rule, etc.
Like pink for girls and blue for boys. Wasn't a thing until Jacqueline Kennedy. It was the other way around
@@zellafae
So how did Jacqueline Kennedy change it around?
Real Q.
@@zellafaei thought that was because of germany in 1940s because of the pink triangles!? 😵💫
guess i may be wrong. ill look into it.
I wore an orange dress that made me feel great. Sometimes I wear it out on special occasions when my hubby and I go out. We just got married in our living room. It was a simple wedding and we are glad we didn’t spend much. We’ve been together 18 years. Practical does not have to exclude beautiful and any time I see that shade of orange, I feel that way agains! 🥰
The yellow veil to be like a torch lighting up the home is actually really beautiful!!
I'm Indian...here Red is considered sacred and auspicious colour for weddings so the bride wears red...
Depends on the culture. I am assamese hindu. We wear white sarees....
Edit: A lot of people are confused as to why we wear "widow's" colour. The sarees are not completely white. They have gold thread patterns on them.
Yup we odias wear yellow ( with red accents ) , a color associated with lord jagannath's clothes ( peetambar )
Red, white and other colours*
Not all Indians, just Hindus.
@@bonbonbonitaWell, India is a Sanatan(what you call hindu) Civilisation.
The moment you started the video with that question, I remembered the final episode of MASH where the bride asked why she would wear a dress of mourning to be married in.
Our traditional attire is mostly black with gold accents. Some add in a few reds and colourful beads here and there. But the main colours are black and gold.
Ooh, which country? That sounds beautiful
Why do many people leave 'where I'm from..." comments but not share where that is?
Transylvania? Bulgaria?
That sounds kick ass!
@@nataliebutlerikr
I always thought a lilac dress would be really pretty.
Lilac would be a great color!
If it's a good color for the person wearing it. Some people just don't look good in some colors
i'm gonna wear it
@@nr1877 I'm sure you'll look beautiful in it. Congratulations 💜
My dress was lilac & white, and all my accessories were lilac. Spouse wore white & purple. Guests wore whatever they wanted, but most everyone wore some shade of purple or had lots of purple accessories. The pictures are so nice & everyone had fun with it.
The Queen slayed so much that they named a whole era after her. Truly a legend of fashion
The moral of the story: wear whatever wedding dress you want. Purple, blue, pink, with roses or other flowers just go crazy. 😂
This !!
Or just go naked? 💀
I can't wear anything because I'll never get married😢
@@Alisonsgachaverse well...who told you that?? 😭🤧
@@arnav_1290r nobody I just know for a fact I'll never get married because I only fall for famous people that have died 😭
Both my grandmothers wore suits (long skirt & jacket) at their weddings. It was during the depression (in the southern USA), so they decided on a nice suit they could wear to church and to other more formal occasions. One was dark peacock green silk shantung (married in her parents’ parlor). And the other was a wool soft purple grey (married at the courthouse; to save money for the business they were starting). Both suits were made by family seamstresses. My mother’s older sister later worn the shantung suit (altered/fitted) for interviews and work.
In 1940s movies, you often see women get married in a suit.
Literally said, "ooh, *lovely*," out loud. They both sound great.
I love how beautiful the yellow veil is and the meaning behind it.
We need to bring yellow wedding dresses back that symbolism is so beautiful 👏
I like that flaming Roman dress idea,🔥 beautiful in yellow, scarlet, orange...
Same!!!
I suppose people of the Mediterranean would look good in such garments. Me- I would look like sick. 😞 Those are not my colors at all (neither is optic white btw).
@@thekingsdaughter4233 yes, same... sometimes you can get away with wearing such colours if you don't wear them near your face, keep the chest and shoulders a flattering neutral colour.
It’s so interesting that in Singapore where I’m from, most of our cultures here wear white for funerals, but ALSO for weddings. I always thought white to be a symbol of purity so it would work both ways.
I'm getting married in November, planning to just wear my best dress. The rhyme of wedding colours is so interesting for example 'married in yellow ashamed of your fellow' or 'married in blue you'll always be true'
'Married in black, you'll wish yourself back' was always amusing to me. Lol
Also fun fact: if you think about the red rhyme "married in red, you'll wish yourself dead." and realize Lydia Deets' wedding dress in Beetlejuice is red...
@Amy_Dunn what if you get married in orange
@@Kyle-nm1kh There isn't one for orange, lol probably because there is no rhyme for orange, they also didn't have a rhyme for purple either.
Edit: also for a long time in history Orange was called "Yellow-Red" until the fruit started to become more prevalent. Like how violet and periwinkle are color names taken from the flowers, not the other way around.
@Amy_Dunn I'd want my chick to get married in green to symbolize nature
Get married in green, don't make a scene
@@Kyle-nm1kh married in green, ashamed to be seen
Edit: not shade, that's the proper rhyme for it in the superstition
Correct me if I wrong, but didn't Queen Victoria also start the trend of wearing black at funerals? After her husband past, she wore black at his service and continued to wear it till the day she died to show her eternal mourning for her lost love.
It's strangely romantic. ❤
It predated her in its association to mourning but she popularized it in modern times. Same with the Christmas tree, it originated in Germany and predates her and her family, but they were instrumental in introducing the tradition to the wider public and it continued to spread from there.
Some historians have stated that Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotts was the very 1st royal to marry in white, the reason being that her wedding was rushed & she didn’t have time to put on a full dress, thus arriving at altar in her underdress, which typically always white.
The "Bridal Chorus" by Wagner was also the song she chose for her walk down the aisle. And is now the standard song for brides at weddings.
Even though it's funeral music. 😂
Both this and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from Midsummer Night Dream. I believe Diana also popularized Canon in D to be used in weddings.
I always was told that the white was a symbol of purity. I always thought it was dumb that people got upset when a bride didn't wear white. The color of dress you choose to wear shouldn't be an issue or signify anything other than your beauty. If I choose to wear a pink dress, I'm not telling the world that I'm somehow not pure. I just really like the color pink.
I also thought it was silly when ppl judged women who did wear white if they were not virgins or had kids from a previous relationship. People wear whatever colors they want at their wedding for whatever reason.
@@valsballoonsandbusiness Yep, it's the idea that a man sexually penetrating a woman makes her "not pure" somehow (and yet it doesn't also make the guy not pure....again, *somehow*.) Ridiculous misogynistic bullshit! I'm glad more women are wearing whatever colors they would like to their wedding ✨
it’s kind of a joke to even imply/assume all the adult women who wear white are even virgins today…probably not even back then except when they were marrying off 12 year olds 🤢
@samaraisnt back in the day they were virgins.
@@us3rG I know. I mean, when I wear a wedding dress, I sure hope I still am "pure," but I don't think I need a dress to signify that much. I believe it's more of a subject between man, wife and God. I'd prefer the rest of the room not really know that kind of information. They don't know my story, all they need to know is that I love my husband and my God.
My mom wore a black skirt with a metallic dark silver corset instead of the usual white dress. I’ve never questioned it, because it looked so good on her and it just made sense that she wore it. If I get married I would like to do something similar. Maybe not a black dress (I’m really pale and light colours just look objectively better) I still want to have something unique like that❤
I like the color variety. Bring that back.
If I ever get married there WILL be a yellow veil or even the dress itself... I freaking love this colour!
If that’s you in the avatar, you’d look so beautiful in that!
I love yellow too but My dress is going to be traditional white with pastel yellow flowers
@sonofhibbs4425 Thank you for the compliment! Made my day 🥰
@@jocelynecupcake It will be so pretty! 🌼🥺🌼
I personally like the white dress tradition the most.Its just that it looks so angelic and majestetic where as wearing a specific colour I would always carry doubt thinking “Maybe I should’ve worn a different shade” or something.White dresses just look the best
That torch thing is such a beautiful metaphor I love that so much
Another example of an incredibly recent "tradition" is the diamond engagement ring. Engagement rings go back a long way, but the diamond ones are a product of 20th Century advertisements by diamond companies.
I have my Grandma's engagement ring (diamond solitaire set in platinum with a 22ct band) from the 1930s. It's as 'traditional' as you can get however it's worthless as it's not brilliant cut but Old European.
@@lace__w5957European cuts are not worthless. They are actually coming back into style. My vintage 30s diamond ring appraised for several thousand.
Nope. My great-grandmother gave me her engagement ring. She lived to be 100 years old and was born in 1865. You are so wrong.
My mom is a real lady of tradition and got really put-off when I told her I didn't want a diamond ring. "But that's what an engagement ring IS", like, not if I don't want it do be💀
@@nugget9245 Prior to the marketing campaign the tradition was to use the gem associated with the brides birth month. Was your great-grandmother born in April by any chance?
I find Indian Bride’s dress and jewelry is the most beautiful wedding dress in the world, that just my humble opinion
My wife wore purple.
Congrats bro, hope someday I can find a wife too
That's a pretty colour 😃
I went to a Christmas wedding held in a medieval castle; the bride wore purple velvet with a faux ermine trim and medieval style flower ringlet veil. She looked fabulous.
@@kendrickbritto8556 it's over
The color of royalty. It is fitting.
Queen Victoria contributed so much to our modern culture it’s actually crazy how much influence she had and still has over our cultural practices, ideologies and the like.
A lot of bad ones since she lost her husband. I watched a documentary on it.
😂 killing the economyies, and destroying ancient art
The yellow veil thing is so cool!
In the early 2000’s in a conservative Christian family in the central U.S., I was afraid to stray from a white wedding dress lest anyone should think it signaled I was “impure.” But my cousin who got married around the same time chose a beautiful wedding dress that struck a good balance. It was mostly white, but on the bodice were interwoven ribbons of deep, rich red. She even put something in the ceremony about the dress symbolizing love interwoven into the couple’s lives or some such. Her mother told me it was “just an excuse” to wear the red dress. I thought it was a genius move to navigate the sexist purity culture we lived in. I keep my own children away from purity culture. They and/or their spouses are welcome to choose any color they like if they choose to marry.
Maybe that is your family, but a lot of people these days wear what they want. Many in the U.S. , England, France, etc. do like white. Not just for purity either. 😮
@kokoro_suisen That is your culture. Let us have ours.
@kokoro_suisen That's fine that a bride could wear black for all I care. But there has been the tradition in white dresses for the west for well over 150 years and I like it for a number of reasons. Also, a man commenting on a woman wearing a white dress seems a bit odd to me.
@@kokoro_suisen The person talking in the video is a man. His choice of vernacular and tone is degrading at least toward white dresses. White dresses came in during Queen Victorias time. She wore a white dress to her wedding and got married in 1840. That was partly what started it all. I am not here to educate people who insist they are right when they know nothing and complain about e erything. Media buffoons.
What is so bad about the purity culture?
i say bring back wearing whatever you want that was more fun
That's still a thing... People can wear whatever they want to their wedding (and they really do) anyone that choose to follow a particular fashion or tradition CHOOSE to do so.
(I guess people not consenting to a wedding would be the only exception but in that case there are bigger issues to discuss than what they wore)
I think the trend is definitely leaning that way now, it's just that a lot of people grew up envisioning white as the wedding color, in Western countries at least. Now more than ever you see a lot of "nontraditional" gowns. Personally I wore black, like I do every single other day lolol.
@@Ares_VTo be fair when you are young you believe into what you are raised with. It takes a while of life experience to sort out the bs.
I really like the white dress. It is so pure and bright. It feels the colour is dedicated for the wedding.
In a lot of eastern countries, white are mourning colors. That's why, like movies in the ring, the spirits are wearing white. That's the clothes they were buried with. In Korea, brides used to wear red and grooms blue. I'm pretty sure it's because of the yang(men)/yin(women) thingy.
Black, white and grey seem to be pretty universally accepted as mourning appropriate.
Although my Nan had a wedding dress, her bridesmaids just wore their best dresses. She called it a "rainbow wedding" which sounds charming.
Indeed, in a normal world. Today rainbow unfortunately means something else.
@@user-ru1kifirst, it's not at all "unfortunate" that rainbow is associated with lgbtq. second, just because it's associated with it doesn't mean it can't change - after all, Queen Victoria wore a dress that was considered a mourning color for her wedding.
@@luciasong2350 Right, it is not unfortunate but absolutely horrible.
@@user-ru1kiokay troll
@@user-ru1ki that's not really what I meant. i don't really see why you would consider that association negative.
I got married in blue and my grandmother still won't talk about my dress. I think the tradition should be what the bride wants.
Wait- what was that sassy dress?!?! With the draping beads?! That was fantastic!!! Beautiful historical item!
That’s an original Bob Mackie dress currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Google his designs and you won’t be disappointed ❤
Late but that's the Minang (West Sumatran tribe, Indonesia) wedding dress, the men wear the same color palette albeit slightly different headwear
It makes you wonder when that trend will die. Diamond wedding bands date to roughly the 1920's, and while they're still the most popular wedding band stone in the US, that popularity is rapidly fading. Many younger people, myself included, prefer colored stones.
Yeah would love to see the stats that diamond execs are passing around at their meetings these days. They must be terrified lol
My wedding band is mostly sapphires, and I am nearly 50. It’s a little unusual, but I love color.
I asked a gold band with flower engravings, no stone. I work with my hands for a living, I didn’t want to have to always be careful! And I hate the competitive culture with stone size. My husband was so happy he hugged me and said “thank you thank you” 😂
Diamonds are really not that precious of stones if you want to invest in jewelry make sure 14kt or higher just remember kt softer gold ✨️✨️
@@CG-MP I'm not from a culture with diamond engagement rings; but I heard that the diamond was the wife's insurance (before life insurance was a thing I guess)? If her husband died (or divorced her), she could sell the diamond and use the money for a new start- a small business opportunity, perhaps. 🤷
White is a mourning color in Japan too.
Black is for weddings!
I usually see white wedding dresses for traditional Japanese weddings. The groom's outfit is black though.
If I ever get married, I would love to make it a private one with my family and hers. nothing too expensive but just me and her and our families celebrating the moment.
We had a wedding at all for the family. I wore a white wedding dress because it made his mother happy. You do what works for you.
@@kyliecowan3879 congratulations!! happy married life for you!!! i hope you live a peaceful life!! ;))
We wore off the rack clothing and our guests wore clothes they already had. Hawaiian shirts, khaki slacks, tropical skirts... My grandma wore a nautical themed skirt. I think she was also the only guest with proper shoes on.
Including the officiant, there were 9 people, I think. Maybe the best wedding ever ❤
We decided to marry after five years of living together. We had our wedding under a huge oak tree in my favorite park. It was billed as a "family picnic" and everybody brought their favorite picnic dishes. It was hot in the summer and we urged people to wear their favorite, climate-appropriate clothing. In place of a wedding gift, we just asked everyone to come with a dish for everyone to share. It was perfect.....except for the little blip that the pastor turned out to be a multiple murderer. Rev. Arthur Schirmer. Memorable for all the WRONG reasons.....It just doesn't seem appropriate for God's speaker at the ceremony. I'm not sure how formal his relationship with God is. We would have been better off being married by one of the park attendants. The last thing on our minds was "checking out" the PASTOR. Simple and casual is fine....just....watch who you choose to do the ceremony.
@@valkyrie1066 thanks for sharing your story! Hope the Rest of your Life would be Wonderful!!
I’m American and chose to have my wedding dress be a nice pale blue. Saved me about 1300 dollars. Bought my wedding dress for the price of a prom dress. That wedding tax is no joke
That's amazing. Did you have a traditional-ish ceremony?
@@_magnify yes and no. My first wedding was in a field in rural Iowa with 10 people in June 2020 for reasons you can guess. We had to get married to start applying for my husbands green card. But my family really wanted to see us married in a church eventually plus my grandmas kidneys were failing and I wanted her to see me married. and so in January 2021 we had a winter themed (also tiny) wedding in my childhood church where I wore my pale blue (with pockets!) dress. My husband is on the spectrum and wasn’t comfortable with fancy clothes so he just wore his usual clothes and my grandparents cried happy tears the whole time. It was the best! It probably looked like a weird party from the outside, and everyone still had to wear masks but it was very special to us. I have the flowers saved and dried still. It was traditional as we could make it having only spent about a month planning it hahahaha
I love it when Emily is in your videos. Love Emily and your first client's nails.❤❤
I'm kind of obsessed with that yellow veil tradition
The color of traditional wedding dress for me is either red (from my Chinese ancestry) or gold (Javanese, because gold is considered glamorous nad luxurious).
Western's white dress does become popular and a trend since I was a kid, but once or twice, you get non-white bride.
And there's absolutely no taboo for women guests to wear white, even in the wedding where the bride wears white, because a wedding dress itself is already much 'wow' than any normal white dress guests can wear.
So whenever I heard someone, usually in internet, saying "Not wearing dress is an universal common sense, everyone know it!", I feel like roll my eyes 😂
It's common knowledge in Western culture where the white dresses originated. Sort of like it's probably common knowledge in your culture to not give chrysanthemums for a wedding but there's no taboo about that in the West.
Every culture has it's standard practices, amd while it's not necessarily expected to learn all of them, it's usually assumed that when you take on another culture's practices you should learn a bit about them.
If an American woman wears a kimono for her wedding, we expect her to prepare the proper accessories and for the belt to be tied properly. If she had her obi tied in the front or something people would definitely comment on it. Probably end up on a fb post about wedding fails.
In western culture, white dresses are strongly associated with weddings. Anything can ne classified as "bridal" just by turning it white. Even casual clothes that are obviously not made for weddings can be viewed as wedding clothes just by someone implying it.
White business suit instead of dress? "Courthouse wedding". Kpop idol in a white tracksuit? "Casual sporty wedding". White picnic dress? " Low key Beach wedding". White bikini? "Sexy beach wedding photos". Regular clothes with white veil? "Poor/low key but deeply in love wedding".
Again, we shouldn't expect everyone in the world to know everything about Western culture, but this is a Western culture and history channel. I try not to go into cultural learning channels and roll my eyes at the idea they might assume a basic level of cultural knowledge or respect from their viewers. I don't see a reason to flaunt my ignorance and show my disrespect, I just try to learn.
Also, in case it didn't come out clearly, I'm not trying to compare Japanese kimonos to Chinese hanfu or anything else, I just used that example because it's just a common choice for Western exoticism and a frequently brought up cultural taboo commited by Westerners. If it was more common for Americans to wear saris I might have said something about improperly wrapping them or misusing henna or bindi. It's a big world but it's full of things to learn, about each other and everything else. You don't have to agree with it to try to understand it.
The first dress is so beautiful & elegant.
One thing that history teaches me is that nothing means anything until something happens that takes over until the cycles repeats, itself at Infinitum
Queen Victoria continues to dominate our lives even after so many years
And not only in the west! I see brides in the far East wearing their culture's traditional wedding outfits, then ALSO putting on a fancy white western wedding dress!
Wow the yellow veil of a bride bringing light into the home like a torch is so cool and beautiful 😅
back in middle school my friends and I were talking about dream wedding dresses. I blew their minds when I talked about wanting a red hanfu with gold and silver trim adorned with silk flowers. one of them told me I wasn't allowed to wear red because it was the sign of the devil. And I shot right back at her and said, "You'd be kicked out of a Chinese wedding for wearing white because those are funeral colors. No one is wearing white in a Chinese wedding, because people want life and longevity not death."
funny how red is the symbol of the devil, while it is universally recognized as the color of love... humans be making things up and restricting themselves in their own thinking 🫠
In India also wedding dresses are mostly red.
There are a couple of outfits worn in a traditional Japanese wedding, but one of them is a white kimono with a large oval hood. It’s really beautiful!
My dress was ivory with black vines, black leaves, and burgundy roses. 🥰 Took me almost a year to make with how much I was working, but was totally worth it. And!! Now I get to wear it to fantasy balls. 😁
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Honestly… part of me finds it crazy that one person is influential enough to impact a culture for this long, but then again that’s the grandiosity of royalty.
haha totally. 200 years ago a queen decided to decorate a yew tree for Christmas and the rest is history. 😂
Thanks for sharing and proving what folx call tradition and sacred was just a trend that stayed popular😊
Omg a white dress with a pale yellow veil would look soo beautiful! I so hope I remember this when I get married someday
Very true about the white wedding dress, also the thing about blue, before it was white blue was the normal colour to have if you could afford it
Blue, at least in the west, was in considered a female colour. Pink was though of as light red and suitable for boys until at least the 1950s.
@@nataliebutler also very true, I always find it funny when people stuck to the modern view even though it has only been like that since the 50s. Thank you for adding that info that I forgot I knew lol
@@nataliebutlerpink was considered boyish because of the christ child. It was common to portray baby jesus in pink in the west because it was considered softer shade of red (red and white were popular colors for adult Jesus Christ in art)
@@AngelicOblivion90 I always forget things like this, thank you for adding this
For poor people sometimes the wedding attire is just their Sunday's best.
damn queen victoria singlehandedly set a trend for almost 200 years at this point. honestly if i did that tho i would be proud
Maybe Queen Victoria felt her wedding was her funeral 😂
Well, after his death, Queen Victoria wore black for the rest of her life because it is traditional for mourning.
I think she just wanted to stand out and be unique, much like anyone today whose culture traditionally wears white wearing another color. Going against tradition or doing something nobody has seen before can be fun.
Nope. She and her bridesmaids wore white so they would stand out, they even changed the time of the wedding from the standard at the time which was in the evening to the morning so more people could see her.
Victoria was actually the one who proposed to her husband, they were like, really in love and had a crazy amount of babies 😭
@@meeksiecore8284Yes, because she loved making them. She actually despised babies :-/
@@meeksiecore8284But yes, she absolutely adored him.
Wow that young lady wearing white with the beautiful garland of flowers and yellow vale looks a lot like my daughter!
The nicest wedding dress I've ever seen was a pastel mint color. They had their wedding in a park in spring, and instead of a cake, they had macarons color-coded to the flavor of the filling...with the green ones being mojito-flavored (the bride's favorite drink).
Queen Victoria was a trendsetter for A LOT of things. She introduced the Christmas tree tradition from Germany to the English-speaking world. I believe she was also responsible for the "gifts in stockings" tradition, as well as cookies, on Christmas. The notion of leaders going to ribbon-cuttings when a bridge or a public building is opened--she started that tradition too. Leaders having an official photograph, she launched that tradition as well. I'd have to do some research, but those are just a few of the "timeless traditions" that Queen Victoria introduced to English-speaking peoples that I can remember off the top of my head.
Wow so good to know! I really did the yellow vail and flower look
I'm not planning on getting married but if I did I'd have a "anything but white" themed wedding XD
From my tribe. A white buckskin dress is made for the bride with nothing adorning it. No beads, fringe, or anything, just a plain buckskin dress. Now that the bride is no longer taken care of by the father and mother they cannot provide her with their items needed to decorate a dress. it is now up to her and her husband to decorate and adorn the dress with their own wealthy items (elk teeth, shells, dentallium)
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This is cool! Thanks for sharing your culture here.
I Love White Wedding Gown..... 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I married in basically every color since my dress (not a particular wedding dress but more just a cute summer dress) had a colorful pattern. I just like colors and didn't want to spend a fortune on a dress I would never wear again. Now I can wear my dress every summer. 😊
Same! I had a tropical print dress and he wore a Hawaiian shirt.
I don't know if anyone needs to hear this but anyone that don't want to wear white to their wedding still can. You can wear whatever you want. If you are choosing to follow a specific fashion/tradition or are choosing what to wear based on what other people will think of you that's a DECISION you are CHOOSING to make.
She slayed and the affects carried on throughout history. Slay literal queen, slay.
1. Queen Victoria is ICONIC for that
2. A big reason why it stuck is probably because it resonated with symbolism in the Bible. IN fact, I was never taught about Queen Victoria, but rather the purity and symbolism associated with it. In the Bible, the church is called the Bride of Christ. And marriage is supposed to be a picture of how Christ (the Bridegroom) loves and redeems His church (the Bride) by dying for us.
In Revelation 19:7-8, we see that picture being fulfilled when the church is in heaven with Christ, pure of sin and made holy through union with Him.
"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
I'd argue Queen Victoria isn't iconic at all and was pretty bad actually
@@monbub Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
I found a really inexpensive (end of season) wedding dress, and after the wedding, I dyed it dark blue. I still get to wear it on occasion.
You still get to wear it sometimes? Wow, your Master is so generous. Let me know if you need a sock.
@@XmatineeX That's not what she meant lmao
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Started and ended in the same place as a string of thoughts💯
As a Buddhist, we wear white as it is a sign of purity and peace...love from India
In the Christian religion we also wear white. Probably because of queen Victoria as in the Bible white is the color of death.
i love asian wedding clothing, they are the best for sure
Yes! The first one on this video is actually one of Indonesia's ethnics wedding dress.
South America too
This is racist.
Every ethnic group have their own beautiful wedding dresses. Not just asians.
Love the yellow vail thing representing the sun. Needs to make a major comeback.
A lot of people for some reason think of it as a symbol of purity, but I believe this was basically just showing off her wealth. Since white is easily dirtied, her wearing it was saying that she didn't have to worry about it getting dirty since I have butlers/servants/maids to do all of the dirty work for me.
This could've also just been her having a goth wedding lol
Regular people were wearing white before the Victorian era. They had multiple ways to keep it clean.
@@melodyclark1944This is just what I had heard a couple times previously. Also, I doubt they were wearing nice white clothes while doing labor
@@brookepearson Women's underclothes that needed to be washed frequently was white. Men commonly wore white shirts. Babies commonly wore white dresses. People do like to say white is easily dirtied as if chlorine bleach wasn't invented in 1789 and they had ways to naturally bleach whites before that like boiling and lye or ammonia.
Okay but can we talk about how beautiful is that white dress with pearl strings? One of a kind
The beaded white dress 😍 that’s what I want for my wedding! 💒
Last year, Indonesians came over to our country to showcase their traditions, and they did a show of their traditional wedding outfits from different regions of Indonesia, and it was so pretty and colourful.
I honestly got puzzled myself when someone said not to wear white because it will upstage the bride
Hahahha
Our brides mostly wear red, but now they wear many different colours
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I don't know but I love wedding gowns of ancient chinese bridals!!! They were gorgeous!!! ❤
In sudan , we sommetimes don't even wear wedding dresses. However , we always wear a red toub (sudanese traditional clothing for women)
Which is why I absolutely love it when a bride chooses color over white (or shades of).
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Just a minor detail but it’s cool that he’s actually in front of a bridal shop
It's Maroon or Red with Golden designs In India you should search some pics the brides look Amazing
I do a black and white dresscode. So every "Once-Bride" gets to wear their dress again. Also my SO and I will be the only ones in color 😊
What museum or showing that is near the end of this video? The almost flapper looking dress is so beautiful!
That is the wedding exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston!
A light blue dress for my future wedding would be amazing