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Posted by ritajoh (U10855204) on Tuesday, 9th August 2011
A fiction novel and it started me wondering, were marriages like they are nowadays, did people send out invitations and did they have receptions like they do today, if not when did they start doing that.
Sending out invitations was only possible once most people could read and write. Printed invitations started at the top with those who could afford them, then there was the 'trickle down effect", all these customs started with high society and worked their way down.
I understand that in the Middle Ages the bride and groom wore red (is that correct?) Certainly, a white dress is a comparatively recent fashion. No ordinary person could have afforded a dress to wear only once. When my great-aunt married in the early 1900s, she wore a very smart "costume" and that would have been her Sunday best thereafter.
If my memory serves me right i think queen victoria started the fashion of a white wedding dress
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