It seems to modern brides that a white wedding dress is one of the unbreakable wedding traditions, rooted deep in the past. That is why creative brides break down all kinds of stereotypes, starting with the color of the wedding attire - anything but traditional white.
But in fact, the custom to marry in white exists only 200 years, which means, from a historical point of view - it is not so ancient.
Let's figure out what the white color of a wedding dress means and when it began to be considered traditional for the marriage ceremony.
In Europe
In Europe, they married mainly in red, green, and other colors were found. For the first time, the Duchess of Brittany wore a white wedding dress and the Queen of France Anna Breton, who in 1499 married Louis XII. This was the first messenger of a nascent tradition, which for more than one century was supported only by the most daring brides.
In 1613, the Anglo-Scottish Princess Elizabeth Stewart distinguished herself on her wedding day. Her wedding dress, like the dresses of her friends, was made of silver-white brocade. The dress of Elizabeth, a dress with a train, decorated with silver lace and embroidered with diamonds, struck any imagination with its luxury and richness of decoration and cost her father, King James I, a fortune.
White outfit at the wedding was also preferred by the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), Archduke Mary-Louise of Austria, who married the emperor in 1810. blog.pixpa.com/interview-photographer-photo-tantra/