Red Wedding Dress

In 1999, as the millennium beckoned the last decade of the century saw not only a change in wedding pattern styles, but also a fashion trend for adding more and more colour to the bride's wedding dress.

Wendy's red wedding dress is a statement of her modern approach. It illustrates her confidence to go against tradition at a time (1999), when coloured dresses were still only worn by a few western brides in UK. Despite this many other nationalities consider that the best colour to marry in is red. Brides in both India and China like to marry in red.

White wedding dresses have been worn in Britain since Queen Victoria a young virginal bride married in white. Until then and even after, many brides simply bought a quality dress in a neutral colour such as creamy beige so that they could wear the dress again and again. Others picked materials like silver lame which could enable a dress to be restyled into an evening gown. Often a woman would have two bodices made - one which was demure in cut for the wedding ceremony and one for future evening wear.

However in the fifty years post world War II as society became more affluent and modern fabrics brought affordable white gowns, brides mostly opted for a white wedding.

Now in the mid noughties decade, a coloured wedding dress is a very popular choice for many brides, with red wedding dresses being hot sellers.