A wedding dress or bridal gown is the dress worn by the bride during a wedding ceremony.
A white wedding dress
A blue wedding dress from 1840
Detail from The Marriage by Nicolo da Bologna, 1350s.
Helena Fourment, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens, painted by Rubens in her wedding dress, 1630.
A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is a newlywed.
Wedding dress
…A wedding dress or bridal gown is the dress worn by the bride during a wedding ceremony. In Western culture, the wedding dress is most commonly white, a tradition popularised by elites in the Victorian era after…
19th-century American bride (left), with the bridegroom (right).
In the early 20th century, sometimes even later as here in 1926, it was not uncommon to see a bride wearing a darker-colored dress.
The woman to the far right is wearing a typical wedding dress from 1929. Up until the late 1930s, wedding dresses reflected the styles of the day. From that time onward, wedding dresses have been based on Victorian ballgowns.