Wedding Gowns

Celtic Edging For Wedding Gowns

Planning the wedding in the ancient tradition of the culture you have been raised to is a way to celebrate your national spirituality in the environment that is strictly related to who you have been and who you are about to become. Combining your individuality with ancient symbols of your country’s tradition makes you more aware of the fact that personality is a feature that has its roots deeply planted into the soil of your nationality, therefore the wedding celebrated in this manner is an original way to express your identity.

A country tradition is reflected very often in symbols that you can incorporate in the design of your wedding dress and if your wedding theme is a Celtic one, then using one of the beautiful Celtic symbols in the style of your gown gets you even closer to the spirit of the ancient civilizations that have built the person you are today. The symbols carry within themselves the reflection of a certain object, state of mind or even spirituality of a given age.

The Celtic history is filled with such symbols that have been discovered along with the archeological diggings and due to the lack of information in regard to their interpretation, archeologists and symbolists have gathered together in rendering their appearance an appropriate definition. Thus the Celtic knot symbol is referred to as an endless knot signifying the timeless nature of our inner spirit facing the infinite circles of birth and regeneration of the being as it is depicted by the shape of the drawing itself.

The Celtic knot symbol is commonly and more often used in jewelry art, in costume and clothing decorations, in woodcarving, in beadwork revealing quite exquisite hand made objects. This symbol is an intricate and wonderful motif to be included in the Celtic edging for wedding gowns. The colors to be used in its displaying can be the ones to represent also the regeneration of nature, green, with the sooth effect of brown color, the color of earth from where the act of birth and rebirth is taking out its sap.

Another symbol which is also intricate in its displaying is the Dara Celtic knot, the word ‘dara’ coming from the Irish word for ‘oak tree’, this specific tree considered to be sacred and at the same time oak tree being the carrier to deliver messages in the lives of Druids. The oak tree symbol represented by three-armed spirals signify power, wisdom, destiny, strength, endurance another reason to be included in the Celtic edging for wedding gown of a bride ready to commit herself to the man of her life, this symbol having within itself the exact features that the act of marriage carry along with the wedding ceremony.

The three rays symbol could be also used in the design of the wedding gown since the first and third rays stand for the male and female energy for the one in the middle to represent the balance of the both. Adorning the aspect of your wedding gown with beautifully created Celtic symbols makes you live the atmosphere of your wedding in perfect communion with the spirituality of your own being.
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