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====  Wedding dresses have been around for quite some time now, some choose to wed in many different colors, more than most shose white. The trend of wearing all white only dated back the Vicortian times. And its most likely that the bride wears white on her day, but through out times, it has changed. This tradition was recent change, well until the mid-1800's. The bride could wear any color that her little heart desired, besides red or black, which was associated with prostitutes and mourning. ==== ====The white was a symbols meaning wealth. Because the dress could not be washed or be reused for any other occasions, it was proof the the bride's family could afford to spend that type of money on extraoridinary dresses, or for any type of clothing for that matter.====

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Also, the white wedding dress was typically used as a symbol for virginity, to represent yourself as pure, and innosence and happiness. There was an old wives tale poem about the White Wedding dress, " Married in white, you will have chosen all right. Married in grey, you will go far away. Married in black, you will wish yourself back. Married in red, you'll wish yourself dead. Married in blue will always be true,Married in pearl you'll live in a whirl. Married in green, you are ashamed to be seen. Married inyellow, ashamed of the fellow. Married in borwn, you'll live out of town. And Married in pink, your spirits will sink.=====

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Weddings before Queen Victoria, (who pretty much wore the first white wedding dress), wore very heavy robes of materials that were made of brocade and velvet. Abd the ceremony was normally held ing the bride's home. Another trend that women used for there Wedding dress, was using printed cotton or lightweight wools sometimes mixed with silk or wool.=====



^^ dress from the 1990's Vintage 1950's white wedding dress

[[image:http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/specials/realweddings/bridesmaids/dresses_490x340.jpg width="219" height="255"]]
These were Bridesmaids dresses the 1970's

http://www.historyofquilts.com/weddingdresses.html http://www.fromtimespast.com/wedding.htm