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I know someone who will be getting married for the second time soon. She told me her wedding dress is white. Do you think that's appropriate? I always thought you were supposed to wear a different color after the first wedding or is that just an old rule that went out the window just like not wearing white shoes after labor day did. If you were divorced and getting married again,would you wear white?
I know someone who will be getting married for the second time soon. She told me her wedding dress is white. Do you think that's appropriate? I always thought you were supposed to wear a different color after the first wedding or is that just an old rule that went out the window just like not wearing white shoes after labor day did. If you were divorced and getting married again,would you wear white?
Yep, out the window.
The white wedding gown craze started with Queen Victoria. It was supposed to imply " purity and innocence of girlhood". Since many of today's modern first time brides are no longer, er, chaste, the color has sort of lost it's claim to exclusivity.
I think, more importantly than the color, the second-time bride needs to consider the cut and style of the gown.
In other words, the dress should match the occasion, and be flattering to the bride's figure.
I think that the bride should wear whatever pleases her. It's her wedding after all. Who are the rest of us to impose guidelines about what she can/can't do.
Maybe her first wedding wasn't all she wanted it to be (in more ways than one) and now she wants to do things differently. I can think of a couple well-intentioned mothers who pushed their daughters to have a wedding that was more what the mom wanted, not the daughter. Had they the chance to do things over, I'm sure it would be different than what they originally did.
It's an old outdated notion. I wore white for my second wedding. Actually, I didn't have a wedding the first time - we married at a Justice of the Peace and I wore a black dress - in hindsight, the black was totally appropriate! LOL
Yes, its pretty much passe to wrinkle your nose at 2nd time brides who wear white. The whole "white as virginity banner" idea is a thing of the past for so many.
My second husband REALLY wanted me to wear a big , bejeweled , WHITE princess dress because it was HIS first marriage. I tried to talk him out of it because I did not want to hear the catty whispers of certain females as I walked down the isle. But he really wanted his bride in white, and he was paying, and I wanted to make him happy. He was.
I did leave the veil off my face, and my two little s wore white as well. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary, and added two more peeps to the mix.
Yes, its pretty much passe to wrinkle your nose at 2nd time brides who wear white. The whole "white as virginity banner" idea is a thing of the past for so many.
My second husband REALLY wanted me to wear a big , bejeweled , WHITE princess dress because it was HIS first marriage. I tried to talk him out of it because I did not want to hear the catty whispers of certain females as I walked down the isle. But he really wanted his bride in white, and he was paying, and I wanted to make him happy. He was.
I did leave the veil off my face, and my two little s wore white as well. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary, and added two more peeps to the mix.
The bride should wear whatever makes her happy. If the bride is happy, that happiness will set the tone for everyone else and will be apparent in the pictures.
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