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Each wedding I have been to within the last a number of years has featured the bride in a strapless dress. The tradition for white seems to have began with the weddings of Queen Victoria after which her daughters, however took a very long time to catch on. The one-off wedding ceremony dress is a 20th century invention, and even then, as you’ll find in Nancy Mitford and Somerset Maugham , a brand new bride was expected to wear her marriage ceremony-dress to her first dinner-parties.

I like the wedding clothes that just have the trace of shade with the …