Wedding Gowns

Muslim Wedding Gowns

For a bride getting ready to commit herself in Muslim tradition of a wedding, the price for a Muslim wedding gown is not at all an issue since to these brides the act of marriage is definitely meant to take place once in their lifetime. The dress could become their heirloom for the next generations of brides existing in their family due to the fact that modern wedding attires are not part of the definition of a Muslim wedding dress, this outfit preserving the same traditional features for ages. At least this is what my friend and her mother believed when her wedding day had been settled and she being the younger sister in the family was the last one to get married.




She would have gladly worn the dress of her elder sister, but due to the time passage, the fabric got broken in some places, and to recreate it would have been useless. Therefore, her mother together with her cousins helped her in the big quest of her wedding gown. Her father was ready to financially support her as long as the dress was traditionally fitting the patterns of a Muslim bridal aspect. And there she was, my friend together with her peers searching through the web pages of bridal gowns trying to reach to the one that would complete her portrait as a Muslim bride.

This was the first time that I have witnessed the research of a Muslim maid for the gown of her wedding celebration. In front of my eyes, a variety of Muslim wedding gowns designed in complex cuts of several layered fabrics to cover the body of a bride who wasn’t supposed to show anything of her body’s parts. I was surprised to see the difference, since I knew my friend wearing also short skirts and sleeveless blouses or shirts, but now with the occasion of her wedding celebration she was supposed to obey to the Muslim rules of wearing her bridal appearance: none of her body parts to be exposed.

I remember the sites where western brides display their image of sensuality showing roundness of naked shoulders and scooped necklines of the bodice to fitted-ly show the round shapes of the breasts; and the wasp waists underlined by corsets that end up in flowing materials that leave behind majestic trains. But in here, with the research done by my Turkish friend, I was supposed to meet only dresses that their main concern was to cover as much as possible the beautifully carved shapes of a woman’s body.

I was speechless, but I can not say that these dresses didn’t have something of their own in return; they had a kind of mystery and elegance in their overall coverage aspect, partly because of the expensive fabric that the gown was made of and partly because the Muslim bridal appearance was reflecting the image of an Jasmine character simple and dedicated more to her moral virtues than to the eyes of other spectators. The Muslim bride is more committed to shine to her own groom than to attract other curious eyes, and since her future husband is the one to appreciate her for who she truly is in her innermost existence, the exterior aspect matters the less.