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For many brides, tradition has blown out the window. Wedding dresses or gowns are any style and any color you want. White weddings, where the bride wears white to attest to her virgin status, have been mostly put away for weddings where the bride wears white because she likes the color. Here are a few of the latest trends in wedding gowns.
Long trains, where there would be a part of the dress that dragged on the ground for several feet behind the bride have largely disappeared except for brides with a near unlimited budget. Veils and tiaras are still the fashion in many places and cultures, but they too have fallen to modernization in style in many others.
What is left is a fairly modest dress, often off the shoulder, which accentuates the bride's beauty. It is no longer necessary to have a dress that screams wedding gown and is unusable for any other purpose. The bride's dress should be fairly comfortable, so that she can wear it for the wedding ceremony and all the pre-wedding and post-wedding photography that is still pretty much the norm at most weddings.
Today, many brides opt for a more casual style which could easily be mistaken for a ball gown when worn without the veil and tiara. Some brides with larger budgets have also opted for a fancy wedding ceremony gown and a matching wedding reception gown into which the bride changes immediately after the wedding ceremony. If this is your choice, make sure that the bridesmaids know that you will be changing so that they can make similar provisions if they choose to.
There is a burgeoning network of bridal gown rental locations which will, for a fee, rent and fit bride's and bridesmaids' attire, just like the tuxedos they rent on the men's side of the store. This option has a lot to say for it, in that it releases you and your bridesmaids from the often burdensome cost of the gown which each of you will wear only once before it fills one third of your closet hanging space.
Another option just beginning to become available on the web is semi made-to-order wedding and bridesmaid gowns at extremely reasonable prices with made to measure fit. You can find these on the web by doing a search on any of the keywords you might associate with the idea.
