Wedding Gowns & Bridal Fashion

Think what a strange thing a wedding dress is. In a style utterly unsuited to any other use, it is fashioned at vast cost and, once the tears are shed and the vows uttered, consigned to dark imprisonment for life among the attic mothballs.

So it appeals all the more to the imagination that Charlotte Middleton became the sixth bride in a century to wear a splendid Japanese silk dress embroidered with pearls, first seen at her great-grandmother’s wedding. It has become part of family tradition, handed on like a treasured christening robe or precious piece of lace.

A wedding dress is old-fashioned in the same way that all families are old-fashioned - for every child’s ancestors stretch back to the beginnings of mankind. Heirlooms are pale images of that great inheritance, but they cheer each generation they touch.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk