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14 opinions for Red Wedding Gowns Impure?

• Brina
  Jul 3, 2008 at 3:15 pm

  Not ‘pure’?

  How archaic.

• Tiffany
  Jul 3, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  My personal belief is that a bride should be able to wear whatever they want on their wedding day. How many women getting married are still virgins?! I don’t think it should matter if you’re a virgin or not when you marry. You’re getting married because you’ve found profound love with someone, whether that person was your first love or not.

  Red wedding dresses are not “impure” at all - they are a statement for brides who want to stand out from the crowd. Just like the short wedding dress, white wedding suits, and other ways that women find to be different at their wedding.

  Kudos to brides bold enough to wear a red wedding gown! I will stick with white, but I am planning on accenting my dress with bright-colored shoes and other accessories. And my dress will most likely be knee length, too.

• Ashley
  Jul 3, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  While the purity concept is irrelevant, I have seen some wedding photos of very pretty women wearing red dresses in reality, and they have not come off well in the pictures. The dress photographs beautifully in a staged showroom, but a red dress in actual live photos seems to have aless than desired effect. The photos I’ve seen either featured washed out brided in comparison to the dress, or the bride looking a little tacky. I’m curious if anyone has gone to a wedding where the dress was red and how it looked in person. I have changed my mind about a red dress personally, purely based on the photos, and will be going with something that draws attention to me instead of my clothing. :)

• Noel
  Jul 3, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  Actually the white dress thing is not as old a tradition as people mistakenly think and it had nothing to do with purity or what not. It was purely a fashion trend that started with Queen Victoria when she wore white to her wedding and it just stuck and then morphed.

  Prior to that brides trasitionally wore their best dress or had a nice dress made that they would wear throughout the first year of their marriage to special occasions. Red, even green in many cultures(including the U.S) is the traditional color to wear for a wedding.

  This whole virgin bride purity is bs and has been perpetuated by yocals who need something to hang on to. It’s nothing more than a trend that stuck. Trust me if Lindsay Lohan got married in a red dress, suddenly every David’s Bridal would be selling those like hotcakes.

• Chrissy
  Aug 4, 2008 at 1:42 am

  I’ll be wearing a red wedding dress for my wedding. I really don’t look all that great in white or ivory and I’ve always loved red. I think it’s really a matter of personal preference. Also, it’s wise to consider that people still seem very stuck on the traditional colors. I have already gotten rude comments from a few people about my choice. You have to be prepared to either defend that choice, or just laugh it off.

  I think a bride should wear what makes her feel beautiful. I love red, as I said, and it’s also been associated with love for a very long time. It used to be that a bride wore bright colors to show her joy in the union. I prefer that idea to the “purity” supposedly represented by white. I’m not pure. He knows I’m not pure. White doesn’t speak to me, but red does.

• Mel
  Aug 14, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  I would have to agree with all of you. The whole white dress for virginity is bs. I am pretty sure non of the brides I know that have worn white were virgins at their weddings. I am a firefighter as is my FH, and we are doing a firefighter theme wedding, so I will be wearing either a pure red dress or a red and white. I believe to each his own. Its your day do like you want.

• Lynn
  Aug 20, 2008 at 2:02 pm

  Thank you all to everyone who commented on Red Wedding Dresses. I found the perfect RED dress for my wedding and I was so nervous about wearing. I was just nervous never said I would change my mind about wearing it. I know I’m going to get alot of rude comments and eye rolling at my wedding, but I honeslty don’t care. It’s flawless on me. It’s not tacky, tight or tastless. It’s beautiful, elegant and creates a very romantic atmosphere. My fiance and I are very classes people so this wedding dress fits our wedding perfectly.

  It’s 2008 and I’m only 26 it’s time out for people to be stuck in tradition. Try something new and exciting on your BIG DAY. I AM!!!!

• designer apparel fan
  Sep 18, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  I like red… I think people are just old fashioned- most likely that generation will be dying out soon.

• Marie
  Nov 4, 2008 at 10:27 am

  I wanted the perfect wedding gown in red. I found it, and my mother of all people (old catholic) told me..”sweetie, red denotes slutiness and harlot.. you’re not wearing red.” I was shocked. I’m still wearing red! I view it this way: it’s MY day to shine, if people can’t get over askewed propaganda from the 50’s..then don’t come to the wedding!

  I think any bride should wear what ever color makes them feel beatiful!

• Kristin
  Nov 4, 2008 at 7:15 pm

  White represents purity. If you are not pure then maybe you don’t feel so guilty about not wearing white. Save the pure color for the ones who actually committed themsevles to staying pure, and the rest may choose whatever color you want.

• Allie
  Nov 5, 2008 at 3:40 am

  I plan to wear a red strapless satin ballgown for my wedding, and Noone is gonna know except for my mom and my bridesmaids. My family is so stuffed full of wedding traditions that it is hard to have a unique wedding. I will use my gown and my reception intro song (encore by eminem) to make my wedding something that will stand out from my sisters and my cousins weddings.

• Chrissy
  Nov 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm

  Actually, interestingly enough, blue represented purity long before white did. White became a tradition only fairly recently. Queen Victoria started a fad. She wore white as a show of wealth and station. White is wholly impractical, so wearing a dress that could only be worn once was a show, it had absolutely nothing to do with purity.

  Wearing bright colors was the tradition for a very long time. Before Queen Victoria set her trend, women simply wore their best dress for their weddings. Bright colors symbolized their joy in the union. The history is really very interesting.

• Maddy
  Nov 10, 2008 at 10:32 am

  Every culture has their own traditions -

  In France, white was the traditional color of mourning and in India, brides wear red.

  Today’s bride should wear what she wants - but be fully aware that people will “talk” - if it’s not about the color of her dress - they’ll discuss how the mother of the groom should have worn a girdle and that the salmon was farm raised -

• Ai
  Nov 12, 2008 at 6:44 pm

  Wedding dresses shouldn’t always remain white, I mean look at other cultures, in Indian cultures the wedding dresses come in all colour of the rainbow, except for white, and the Chineses wear red wedding dresses. It shouldn’t matter whether you’re “pure” or not, it depends on the person wearing the dress, and what colour they feel it should be for their special day.

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