For girls and ladies only!

[Elonve]

A flowing, forgiving a-line dress perhaps.

I would like a dress in an emerald green colour (velvet would be nice!) with gold embroidered celtic trim along the edges of the V neckline, full long 'flared' sleeves, over skirt and for the belt.The under skirt and sleeve lining can be in a contrasting colour. It has a corseted back.

Now I only need Prince charmin' *sigh*

Click here to have a look at what I am thinking of.

I found a great site specialising in Medieval & Elvish Wedding gowns the link is here.
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[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am also going to breake the rule about only females on this threat, but if it will make you feel better I could shave off the beard and put on a dress before posting.

anywas I found it interesting what Mith said about Queen Victoria and that you did not wear red and black. Before white became custom in Denmark, it was tradition to wear black. Black was what you wore on important occations, so of course the wedding dress was black.

I could picture a "black" elven wedding, but it is hard. . .because today you think sorrow when you see an all black dress.

[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....

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.

[Folwren]

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....

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.

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.

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... )

-- Folwren

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Elonve

I found a great site specialising in Medieval & Elvish Wedding gowns the link is here.

Oh dear. I found a dress I want...

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Celuien

Oh dear. I found a dress I want...

That is lovely.

I really wish I could get a picture of the one I want up here.

-- Folwren