The symbolic meaning of the color of wedding dress

White wedding dress: The white wedding dress was most popular in the Victorian era. Queen Victoria wore a beautiful white wedding dress when she married her sweetheart. From then on, the white wedding dress became popular all over the world, and is still the most popular wedding dress for girls today, because it symbolizes purity and loyalty. Before Queen Victoria, brides did not care about the color of their clothes, even black, as long as they were beautiful.
There are not only rituals and customs to be observed in the wedding, but also in the dress. Chinese traditional wedding ceremony when the bride and groom wear red dress, a symbol of auspiciousnessMeaning, indicate in the marriage after the day is thriving. Brides in the West wear white dresses. Since Roman times, white has been a symbol of celebration. Between 1850 and 1900, white was also a symbol of wealth. By the turn of the century, white had become more pure than anything else. White is believed in the West to be associated with virginity. The ancient Roman bride wore a white wedding dress and a bright orange veil, symbolizing the flame of passion. In the Catholic tradition of the West, white is associated with joy; In other regions, white indicates a variety of access ceremonies and meanings during their weddings and funerals. In the Andaman Islanders, for example, white represents a change in status. The "traditional" white wedding dress was the prerogative of the aristocracy in the early days. In the era of Queen Doria, most brides could only wear traditional state dress, and only the upper class could wear white wedding dresses, which represented power and status. It was not until recent times, when the privileges of the aristocratic class disappeared, that the white wedding dress became the dress of the ordinary bride. In contrast to the history of white wedding gowns in the West, the history of the bright red phoenix gown in Chinese wedding is relatively simple. The dragon and phoenix play an important role in Chinese mythology. Yang and Yin are represented by dragons and phoenixes, while Yang represents men and Yin represents women. So the bride is represented by phoenix. So it is easy to understand that the red dress is embroidered with phoenix.
The origin of the white wedding dress: although the wedding is the world since ancient times the existence of the ceremony, but the history of brides in the wedding dress is less than 200 years. The white gauze gown worn by the bride was originally a ceremonial Catholic gown. Because some ancient European countries are theocracy of the state, people must get married to the church to accept the priest or priest's prayer and blessing, so that can be considered a formal legal marriage, so the bride put on a white ceremonial dress to God to show sincerity and purity. In the west before the 19th century, girls married when the bride dress did not uniform color specifications, until around 1820, white gradually became the wedding dress widely used color. This is because Britain's Queen Victoria wore a white and elegant wedding dress at her wedding. From now on, white wedding dress becomes a kind of formal wedding dress, nowadays, some people do not understand the origin of wedding dress, oneself be creative, make the bride's wedding dress pink or light blue color, in order to show gorgeous. However, according to western customs, only remarried women, wedding dress can be used pink or lake blue and other colors, to show the difference with the first marriage.

In addition to pure white, ivory, yellow and other colors, the wedding yarn has changed with the current of the world.
In recent years, wedding gauze has gradually become a whole set of pink, pink orange, pink blue, pink purple, pink green and light
Silver gray, not always soft and pleasant eyes; If you are brave to try, ink green, jujube red, deep purple, decorated in pink marriage
On the yarn, shape into a strong color of ceremonial clothing, the effect is very different; One of the most popular is the elephant tooth
Color or pure white wedding yarn, decorated with pink silk flowers, butterfly, to add color.

As a matter of fact, what color is the wedding yarn is not too important, the most important piece is to match with the new mother's skin color. Skin color is deep and yellow, wearing Snow White wedding gauze, will appear dark dumb, wearing elephant tooth color will be more harmonious and natural, pink blue, pink purple and yellow skin can not harmonize, and pink orange, pink green can match with yellow skin color. To skin white in the red, or the ancient copper skin wearing pure white will be very good to see, especially after,
With Xinlang's swallow tail suit, a sudden and different from the rest of the light.

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