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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
Well I guess it depend what you are used to .. in many countries they would see our white dresses and associate them with mourning ..and even with relatively similar cultures, you can have differences, for example, I find it very odd to see American weddings on TV and the bridesmaids going up the aisle ahead of the bride....
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Out of curiosity, why do you find that odd? I never thought about it, being American and that being how it always is. But the funny thing is, when my brother got married, my sisters and I were all bridesmaids, and we came with her. It was really cool, because most of the walk from the house to the place of the wedding, the guests and the groom couldn't see us, so we were walking through a silent woodland, all four of us girls surounding the bride. It was very beautiful, if I say so myself.
That's the only wedding our family has had so far, and it was very untraditional. But I loved it and think I shall do the same thing in many things.
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Monochrome doesn't seem elvish to my mind.... despite the evidence of Galadriel and Nimrodel.... I would think there is a case for blue being a likely colour. It is "natural" but not as unobtrusive as greys greens and browns so more appropriate for special occasions, it suits their colouring and is the colour of the heavens and so perhaps worn as a token of veneration of Manwe and Varda who are named as witness at the marriage ceremonies which presumably since they followed a feast were held in the evening.
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Yes, blue is a color I think would be possible... Not only is it the color of the sky, as you mentioned, but it tends to make one think of water, when it's a light blue. Not that water is particularly blue all the time, but it is sometime, and people sometimes tend to think of it as blue.
Anyhow, I think water was also important to the elves.
Rune, I only said 'Girls and Ladies' because I didn't think gentlemen would be very interested in the topic. I wanted to give them fair warning. Some guys are disgusted with conversations about wedding dresses. (You should hear my brother...
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