So my cousin got engaged two weeks ago and has been talking non-stop about wedding plans from color schemes to cakes, it’s all about the wedding for the next year. I hope I can survive all of this wedding talk!
As first generation Indians who have very traditional Indian parents, we have to find the right balance of Indian and American culture to intertwine and create our ideal bliss. So for Indian girls that are getting married, we have to decide on the wedding dress – will we wear traditional Indian garb? Or a flowing white wedding gown? Typically, it varies depending on the bride’s interests as well as the parents’.
Wedding gown
Wedding Sari
Well what about other cultures? In my previous post, I mentioned the different uses of color to express meaning into feeling, social norms, culture, religion and much more. Color definitely plays a role into a woman’s wedding dress. Let’s take a look at what’s typically worn around the world:
African Bride
What I’ve noticed is that Wedding gowns are typically the brightest, most beautiful version of the normal cultural garb. As fashion has become more global, trends are overlapping into one another and becoming mixed&matched. I have very little fashion sense, so I’ll stop there with that.
When it comes time for me to pick and choose, do I know what I’m doing? Not a clue!