Wedding Gowns

Wedding Gowns With Red

Not too many modern brides (including mostly the ones to belong to the 50s, 60s, and 70s) have had the audacity to try wearing other than traditional white as a color for their wedding gown. Only recently, different colors and hues have been used in dying the fabrics out of which designers created fabulous wedding gowns. Actually colors are a good source of inspiration when it comes to create things, be they in painting, fashioning or generally speaking, art. Because every color carries within its displaying certain meanings, they can easily become the reason of existence of different artistic expressions.




But at the same time some individuals perceive colors with meanings that are totally opposed to other individuals’ perception of colors. This happens due to the variables determined by gender, ethnicity, culture, experience and even religion. Painters have tried to convey colors the meanings that were useful to the overall message that their artworks transmitted to the eyes of the beholders. Thus Leonardo da Vinci has tried to define colors according to the simple displaying of elements existing in the nature, in this respect he had set white for light’s representation, blue for air, black for darkness and red for fire.

If we take red, for instance, we see that there is a color to display extreme perceptions: love and violence; what features can be more extreme if not the two opposite feelings? One can not love and carry within himself at the same time the anger of violence; as if he is populated by two contradictory feelings that would eventually tear him apart. Love in its definition can not comprise violence, since love is a feeling to reflect harmony, inner peace and joy; it is a feeling that is by excellence warm and understanding.

That is why red it is mostly given the side of love and passion when it comes to its meanings in the unfolding of a wedding event. Thus red flowers are often used to symbolize the love that governs the two souls which are subject to unity in the celebration of a wedding. Going further than that, many brides dare to use this color even in the fabric that creates their wedding attire. Wedding gowns with red have become nowadays a favored tendency to show the passion of love as a mark of personality in the bride’s wedding attire.

Brides who wish to step out of a traditional white wedding dress choose alternative colors in an attempt to add to their appearance on the aisle the element of surprise and uniqueness. In this regard they often choose red to decorate the white color of their wedding gown in empire style models created by famous fashion designers; we meet brilliant collections of wedding gowns with red, most of them using the white colored fabric as the background for the spots of red disposed either as insertion on the long imperial trains or red roses to pin the rich ruffles of the dress’s skirt.

Red is indeed an audacious color to be used as unique color for the wedding gowns but small doses of it applied on the sparkling white can be more effective in the aspect of an attire that is meant to turn a bride into the queen of the most important day of her life.