Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
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So last week I wrote blog post about why brides wear white wedding dresses and it’s led to a lot of other questions about the wedding planning process. In light of that, I decided that I should investigate more of these “traditions” to see where they came from. Now – why do we have bridesmaids and groomsmen?
Turns out that unlike the white wedding dress, the bridemaids and groomsmen is truly a “tradition” that stands the test of time. There are several different version of the history out there, so I’ll just try to compile it the best way I can….
Best Man & Groomsmen
So the long & the short of it is that the best man and the groomsmen have always been the guys who would say to the groom “dude, I got your back.”
Somewhere in the early A.D. era, there were when a dude couldn’t find a wife, he and his buddies would go to the next village over and steal a future wife. Yes, steal. The buddies not only helped with the stealing but they’d “get the groom’s back” during the wedding ceremony — you know, just in case the bride’s family wanted her back or something.
Other stories say that the groomsmen helped escort the bride to the wedding (even when she was a willing participant).
Bridesmaids were involved in the wedding ceremony for two reasons: to be a witness to the wedding and to confuse the evil spirits. Roman law required witnesses be present at the wedding — so that’s why the bridesmaids were there! Even today, many bridesmaids (or perhaps just the maid of honor) can serve as a witness to a wedding ceremony.
The evil spirit thing has to do with…. attire!
Attire
In the case of both the brides and the grooms, the groups would dress very similar to the bride & groom. Why? To ward off evil spirits of course! The idea was that the evil spirits would get confused by the similarity in dress. Which seems (to me) that maaybe those evil spirits weren’t so bright.
Anyway, “we’ve” kept the tradition of the bridesmaids dressing the same as each other, but not so much as the bride. Perhaps this is because the brides have recently adopted the tradition of wearing white instead of any old color. Obviously the groomsmen still dress very similarly to the groom.
Whether you are the bride or one of the bridesmaids in an upcoming marriage ceremony, you have probably given a certain amount of thought to the role that bridal attendants play. Even though a bridesmaid no longer serves exactly the same purpose that she did in the precursors to today's western weddings, she is nevertheless more than just a pretty face. Given the tasks overworked brides have asked for assistance with, it is almost certain that a number of weddings throughout the years will not have turned out as flawlessly as they have if not for the bridesmaid.
While in modern times a bridesmaid is expected to assist with anything the bride requests or needs, apparently her duties were of a more serious, if not at least supernatural, nature in earlier days. A custom once existed where maidens dressed similarly to the bride would accompany her as her protectors on her way to the groom's village. This would deflect spurned suitors from kidnapping the bride or from stealing her dowry. Roman law once required witnesses to come to weddings in order to confuse evil spirits as to the identity of the bride and groom. This meant that female wedding attendants came to a marriage ceremony in garments akin to the bride's, while male wedding attendants--the forebears of ushers--wore attire that resembled the groom's own clothing. This supposedly threw off bad luck that could be directed towards an easily identifiable bride and groom.
Function
The bridesmaid, in contemporary times, assists the bride with anything the latter needs relating to her wedding day. Duties can span the range of booking appointments for the bride and groom, to mailing out invitations and reminders to attendees of the big day. Essentially, the presence of the bridesmaid ensures that the bride has someone to lean on during one of the most important--and potentially stressful--events in her life. This is why there is usually more than one bridesmaid and why the women chosen to fill the position typically have a close bond with the bride.
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
Bridal Dress Pakistani 2013 Dresses Suits Mehndi Designs Pic Jewellery Mehndi Lehengas 2013
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