The perfect wedding dress… Any girl’s must!

At Stand Out modelling agency, we try to display different looks in our models portfolios and a real bridal wear image can be an asset. So of course, you have to start checking out the wedding dresses that would suit our models best and obviously, you can’t help yourself and you have a peek at their price. Horrified, you realize that a wedding dress is at least £500 and I have seen some go up to £1,500!

Marriage has become an industry and when your day comes up, it is all too normal to want it to be perfect. In order to match the perfect husband they are about to commit for life with, every bride wants the perfect dress, the perfect caterer, the perfect church, the perfect flowers,… All this has a price, and believe me, it’s a pretty steep bill.

Why do we spend so much money on a wedding dress? I mean girls, I know you will hate me for saying this but let’s look at this rationally; it’s a dress you will wear once in your lifetime, because even if you get divorced and re-marry, you will not pull your first wedding dress out of your wardrobe, it would just be insensitive! So it is one dress, for one day, and it is at least £500 (unless you rent it, but that’s just tacky!). And that is just for the dress, because then you have all the accessories, the tiara or the pearl or rhinestone hair accessories, the necklace, the earrings, the underwear (don’t forget them!) and of course shoes! (I like to keep the best for last). So what does the wedding dress represent that is worth spending a month salary on a one-day outfit?

Historically speaking, the different symbols in a European wedding ceremony mostly come from Roman times. The ring, the rice, as well as the kiss, symbol of the couple’s lifelong commitment are Roman traditions. The white wedding dress, on the other hand, dates back from the Victorian era. Queen Victoria decided to wear a white dress instead of the traditional silver one for her wedding to Prince Albert and it soon became tradition for the society elite to imitate her. This colour is thus traditionally associated to higher status, innocence and sexual purity.

Nowadays, in our society, marriage is a matter of love, whereas, before, it often was a matter of politics being the union of two families, businesses or even countries. Because the brides represented their family at a wedding, the wedding dress was a way of casting the bride’s family in the most favourable light.

If we now go back to the present, all these symbols are heritage and most of them have lost their initial meaning. Nevertheless, they are dear to our heart and there is no way we could do without them. The thing is, us girls, we have been thinking about the perfect wedding dress long before we are even engaged. We have been dreaming about that day when all eyes will be on us, with a dress that is neither ostentatious, nor too simple but would flatter our figure and make us the perfect bride on OUR perfect day. Some say a bride-to-be instantly know she is wearing HER dress, I am not so sure about that, what is certain is that it can be either white, eggshell, ecru, ivory cream or subtle beige, the most important is that it matches our expectations (and our complexion). This dress needs to convey the uniqueness of our wedding, showing off both our love and success to the rest of the world.

Written by Anne de France

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