#brides

[90ssmut2]

[barb-alayna-artstuff]

Blushing Brides…

[Allie]: Blushing…?

[Barbie]: Yeahhh… I didn’t buy that either… (giggles)

[mysharona1987]

I agree the $10 dollars was cheap (if you’re giving money it should at least cover the meal, I guess) but $60, 000 on a wedding is insane if you aren’t already fairly well off.

[unholeystudio]

[seasidemoonrise]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Colors ~ Blush ~

[life-spire]

[dandyads]

Pepsi-Cola, 1954

Theme Week: Weddings 💍

[tantaliart]

the real housewives of castle ravenloft

[barb-alayna-artstuff]

Blushing Bride…?

Pfffft… As if…

Barbie

[vintage-norway]

Traditional Norwegian bride (1966)

This girl is wearing the traditional wedding attire from Telemark, from Telemark county. Eastern part of Norway. Here she is seen wearing a Øst-Telemarkbunad which is the bunad for the eastern part of Telemark county.

[democracyunderground]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Colors ~ Blush ~

[dandyads]

Lucky Strike, 1949

Theme Week: Weddings 💍

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Queen Victoria’s Famous White Wedding

The image is from Sir George Hayter’s painting “The Marriage of Queen Victoria.”

When Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-1861) were married in 1840, Victoria made the unconventional decision to wear a white dress.

Her “white wedding” was a sensation, and well-to-do brides in Britain and America began immediately to imitate her.

By the early to mid-20th century, brides of all social stations had begun to choose white and, of course, by our era, white wedding dresses have become de rigueur.

Within a decade of Queen Victoria’s famous white wedding, a popular and influential American women’s magazine published an article declaring that brides had worn white from time immemorial and that the color was chosen because it symbolized purity and virginity.

“Custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material. It is an emblem of the purity and innocence of girlhood, and the unsullied heart she now yields to the chosen one,” wrote an editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book.

But actually, women rarely wore white dresses at their weddings before Queen Victoria wore one.

Before Victoria’s wedding, only an eccentric woman would have chosen to be married in a dress that wasn’t colorful.

A white dress would have been considered a very unusual choice. Moreover, while a woman would wear her best dress for her wedding, there was no such thing as a specialized “wedding dress.”

So, in fact, the custom of wearing white wedding dresses originated not in some ancient tradition as a symbol of purity, but rather in the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which occurred on 10 February 1840.