When did weddings become such a black and white affair? Black tie, white dress: these are the trappings of the traditional wedding. As beautiful as weddings can be, it is past time we do something to update the look and feel of getting married. Tradition is one thing, boring is quite another. Just stop it, already! Nothing about getting married and being married is black and white. The world you are about to enter is filled with shades of gray, and pastels, and vibrant, living color.
Here are a few ways to ensure your wedding reflects a brighter reality:
Colorful Rings
As a tradition, the wedding ring is never going away. However, tradition does not have to dictate the style and color of the ring. Silver and gold has become as stale as black and white, expressing little about the giver or the receiver of the ring.
Fortunately, there are companies like Front Jewelers offering a spin on tradition. By choosing a blue diamond ring, you can have the traditional stone in a more modern and colorful presentation. The yellow diamond rings are also quite striking.
Throughout the industry, you can also find chocolate diamonds, strawberry gold, and every other taste color combination of weddings-grade jewelry. Everybody is going to want to get a good look at the ring. Why not give them something colorful to talk about?
Colorful Dresses
There was a time when the color of a wedding dress indicated the purity of the wearer. A white dress confirmed that the bride was a virgin. off-white indicated, not so much. But that was actually a later interpretation added by the church. Originally, wedding dresses were colorful, and represented the nicest dress a woman happened to have. White did not gain popularity for wedding dresses until 1840 when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert: her first cousin.
The white dress only caught on among the wealth, leisure class at first. Some of it was to show that they could emulate a royal wedding. Some of it was to show just how rich they were by wearing a dress that was expensive and fragile, but would never be stained by toil or labor. In other words, it was a sign of conspicuous consumption.
It seems the only people who should be wearing white at their wedding are those who want to make a statement about their sexual innocence, people who are conspicuously wealthy, or royalty who happen to be marrying their first cousin. If none of those things accurately describe you, then perhaps you should consider save that $1,300 you were going to spend on a white wedding dress, and put it towards the honeymoon. The white wedding dress is one tradition you should really rethink before walking down the aisle.
Colorful Cake
Did it ever occur to anyone to make a chocolate wedding cake? Apparently, it has. And that is a very good thing. For no good reason, we have allowed tradition to whitewash our wedding cakes: the ultimate expression of a flavorless wedding. If not with your ring or dress, at the very least, make a colorful statement with your cake. By doing so, you can have your cake, and actually enjoy eating it.
Your TV is color. The photographs you take and print are in color. Isn’t it time you step out of the 19th century and have your wedding in all the colors of the rainbow?
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Awesome post, my man is designing my ring, as I want colors and shapes 🙂
That’s awesome Judith. Congratulations!!!