Wedding Dresses Fashion Guide

People say that the only thing a woman prepares more carefully than her wedding is her child’s wedding. And a big part of it s getting a wedding dress. Today it’s hard to imagine that in the Middle Ages there were no special wedding dresses. Brides wore something to show their status, so girls from wealthy families would wear rich colors and expensive fabrics (furs, velvet and silk) and poorer girls could go with their best church dress.

Years have passed and eventually wedding dresses and wedding accessories have become a separate industry. 1840, the year of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburgwas marriage) was a very important year for the wedding dresses fashion, as when Victoria appeared in a white gown on the official wedding portrait photograph, thousands of brides were choosing white for their wedding dresses to honor the Queen's choice and today’s western wedding dresses are usually white (including creamy shades).

Even as wedding dresses fashion turned into something very unique and special it still followed the rest of women’s clothes fashion. So 1920s were the time of short in the front wedding dresses with a longer train in the back. Wedding dresses fashion strongly depended on the current women’s clothes fashion until the late 1940s, when Victorian style long, full-skirted dresses got back. And this trend is still dominating even though Western wedding tradition accepts all the kinds of color and variety of lengths for the wedding dress.

Today, there are wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses are available in all price ranges you can buy ready-made designer wedding dress, wear a family heirloom, or have a dressmaker create the dress especially for you. Whichever wedding dresses fashion you chose, remember that one of the most important wedding accessories is the bride’s smile.