It is a western tradition to wear a wedding dress when getting married. Wearing a wedding dress represents the bride's sanctity and immaculate, and also represents that the future will be bright and flat. In China, it means lily, which means good relationship for one hundred years. The bride in the wedding dress is like lily fairy, white and pure.
The white wedding dress has a history of more than 160 years, but in 1840, Queen Victoria changed the traditional luxurious dress to brocade gown, with an orange floral veil, the whole world caused a stir. From 1850 to 1900, white became a symbol of affluence. At the beginning of the 20th century, white was also a symbol of purity and became the first choice in many wedding dresses.
Although different countries chase after white wedding dress, but the custom of each country is not the same. For example, in the traditional wedding in the United States, there will be very special requirements for the wedding dress, new, old, borrowed, blue! The meaning of these four words is very special. New said if the bride's white wedding dress new, old moisturizing the bride's veil must be white, and is worn by the mother of white gauze, borrow said the bride's white handkerchief from his companion that borrowed, mean, don't forget the friendship, while blue said four blue bride wearing silk, expressed the attitude of love is loyal.
Wedding is a ceremony that has existed since ancient times in many countries around the world, but the history of brides wearing wedding gowns on the wedding is less than 200 years. In fact, the white gauze dress worn by the bride is a Catholic ceremony dress, because some countries in ancient Europe is the state of theology, people must get married to the church to accept the priest or priest's prayer and blessing, so as to be a formal legal marriage. Before the 19th century in the West, the girls married when the wedding dress dress did not have a uniform color specifications, until around 1820, white gradually became a wedding dress widely used color. This is because on the day that Queen Victoria got married in England, she put on the first white wedding dress in history, which amazed the whole world. Since then, women have been getting married in white wedding dress. Before that, the British royal family wore a wedding dress, a jeweled silver evening gown, and a fur coat.
White serves as the mainstream color in wedding dress color, having deep historical root. During the reign of the Lord, the social status of women was very low. People valued the virginity of women, and women must keep their virginity as jade before marriage. This idea was also reflected in the color of the wedding dress worn by the bride. In the past, some places stipulated that white wedding dress is the patent of young girls, and the second marriage or the woman who has lost her virginity is not allowed to wear white wedding dress, people believe that the wedding day the bride should be the most pure, the most beautiful, and white is the only color that can match her pure and beautiful. The white wedding dress was a symbol of inner purity and childlike innocence, and later became a symbol of virginity. So white wedding dress as the basic wedding dress was inherited, and gradually received around the world.
