Renaissance Wedding Dress

A renaissance wedding is a special event and thus it’s only appropriate that it be a totally unique experience for those involved. There are many aspects to planning and going through with a wedding, but the part that many brides focus on, the part that nearly all the guests focus on, is the bride’s renaissance wedding dress itself.

There are many types of wedding dress, from the simple “best dress you own” to the iconoclastic “pure-as-the-driven-snow white princess ball gown” made famous by the Victorian era along with all the different styles and colors in between, or of course a renaissance wedding dress.

Just like any fashion trend, things come and go and one of the things that has been back with a vengeance is the renaissance wedding dress. Whether it’s for a faerie tale wedding or something more historical, the renaissance wedding dress is both fanciful and leaves a lot of room for personal and creative alteration.

From the early medieval period to the lavish renaissance, there’s just something almost exotic about a wedding dress from an era long since passed. Not to mention the gamut of style for renaissance wedding dresses, just like modern dresses, ranges from the sleek and simplistic to the ornate and complicated. And it’s not just the renaissance wedding dress, but the accoutrements as well that also take on an exotic and fanciful air, from the headdresses all the way down to the jewelry and shoes. And what goes better with a renaissance wedding dress than a flowing cloak? Absolutely nothing, unless of course you’ve got a carriage with 6 white steeds to get you to the appointed place, but that falls a bit far from the dress category.

The nice things about a renaissance wedding dress are that they go well with corsets/bodices and other fun undergarments as well as they’re not expected to be white, so if you’re feeling particularly awesome, and I know you are, you can also wear your renaissance wedding dress out to ritzy parties and gatherings and not feel too “out of place” by wearing all white. Especially if it’s after Labor Day. Bad joke, I know. It also means that if you do that, you’ll get more bang for your buck by getting to wear your most awesome of dresses more than once. Not to mention that if you’d like the groom to match, it gives him a lot more options than just the basic tuxedo with his choice of matching cumberbun.

Clearly there are several pros and no cons to going the route of the renaissance wedding dress, so what are you waiting for? Start planning your renaissance wedding dress design now!

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Author: Tae Wells