White weddings

White has long been associated with virginity and purity, in conjunction, so it was for wedding dresses from the 19th Century used.

The popularity of non-color really started when Queen Victoria married her cousin Albert of Saxe-Coburg in 1840 in a white dress.

Though brides continued to wear all kinds of colors, the white gradually dominate.

The industrial revolution was made ​​available more cheaply, easily available materials for women's fashion and by the turn of the 19th Century department stores selling the latest clothes.

By Edwardian women should buy a new dress for her wedding. Those who have money, have something drawn in white, while the would wear a dress on a budget for it, it might look a little change here and there.

The First World War, shortages and textiles, the war effort meant that the modes become more practical and simpler, with less material.

Dresses from this time are slim and trim, without swirl and fly.

After the clothes were from the Second World War, always imaginative, played by another royal wedding dress, Princess Grace of Monaco and Prince Rainier in 1956 (left).

Today's brides are, once again, return to heavy bridal wear with pearls, lace and layers of petticoats to work in fashion.