Wedding Dress Colors

I suppose that the white wedding dress will eventually go completely out of style. Its popularity has been fading throughout my life and more and more brides are choosing colored wedding dresses.


That's okay. The white wedding dress is really a fairly recent fashion trend, not really catching on until sometime early in the twentieth century (the first white wedding dress in recorded history - though probably not the actual first - was worn by Queen Victoria when she married her cousin, Albert of Saxe) as the Hollywood starlets began to have money enough to get and clean a pure white dress.

The choice of a wedding dress in a color other than white is both personal and practical. It depends on what she likes and feels beautiful in, but at the same time don't forget that their are practical factors outside her simple tastes that any bride should weigh before making the decision:

1. The Bride's Flesh Tones: There is no one color that all people can wear well. Most women know what colors best suit them and therefore should consider the possibility of choosing a wedding dress color from the palate that best suits them - after all, they want to look their best on their wedding day, don't they?
2. The Decor of the Church and Reception Venue: No one wants to look back at their wedding pictures only to discover that their dress clashed horribly with the decor - or worse, caused them to disappear into the background of their own wedding!
3. The Colors of the Season: No bride should be a slave to seasonal colors, but do take a moment to consider how the seasonal colors at the wedding will impact the look of the wedding dress she is choosing.
4. The Bridal Traditions of Her Background: This might mean traditional white but it might not. For example a bride of Asian decent might want to consider the tradition of some Asian cultures of red for a wedding dress color. For some descendants of Scotland it might even mean a plaid!

Any bride's choice of color of their wedding dress is a study in what will best compliment her natural beauty and what makes her unique. If that means a white dress, wonderful. If that means a shade of blue, then that is fine as well.