Great wedding dresses for consecrated virginity

  • Thread starter Thread starter convertingtocatholic
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
convertingtocatholic said:
it’s just I wanted something so old so vintage even covering my hair like how nuns cuts there hair as a symbol.
Click to expand...
If you want something old´and vintage, if you look at wedding photos of the 1900´s, you will see they are mosty extremely simple. Even in the 50´s theres much more simplicity than glamour on many pictures.
A plain simple white dress with a veil would do this job extremely fine. When I had to chose my baptism dress as an adult woman, I looked for opaque, long and white, too, but kept it simple.
 
Really the idea of every woman having a wedding dress is pretty modern. For most of history, the idea of having a dress just for one day was preposterous for the majority of the population. You wore your best dress and jewelry, or borrowed from someone. But most people didn’t have enough money for a dress they’d only wear once.
 
yeah, until the 1920s many wedding dresses were the plain black wedding/funeral/sunday/aniversary best dress with a wedding headpiece, in rural environments after this time, too. My grandma married in her best suit and a hat and my mother (still a student then) in a dressy skirt and a simple blouse. I was the first generation after 1900 who married in a white dress which was borrowed because I was, good´old family tradition, a poor student 😂
 
Last edited:
Yup. My mother got married in a dress that her mother-in-law made for her. (I almost fit it, I’ve apparently got a few more curves than my mother had.)

Really, the whole white thing annoys me for practical reasons. I’m an extremely pale lady; putting me in pure white makes me look like I should be at home sick! I think if I were going to pick, I’d maybe do a white skirt and a blue top, or a white dress and one of those blue shawls, or something. Anything that doesn’t involve a lot of white next to my face.

Blue was considered traditional because it’s Mary’s color, before the whole white dress came to be a big deal.
 
I remember reading that the idea of the ‘one time’ white dress, came from Queen Victoria. After her wedding, it became a sort of fashion, but many people still couldn’t afford the luxury.
 
Last edited:
It did, yes. The rich did already have a special one-time dress, because they could afford that (although they’d probably give it to a servant afterwards).

Fun fact: a lot of the white dress stuff was economic. Lace had been a traditional british industry, but was fading in fashion in favor of imported silk. But of course if the queen had a dress made of english lace, then everyone would need to buy a new dress from the lacemakers!
 
this is also what I read about it. The first white weddigng dress appeared in the 17th century, but more because white was fashionable and not because of a strict “wedding resses have to be white” rule. It seems to be heavily intruduced to the urban folk in the beginnig of the 20th century (hello, marketing) as I see from magazines of the time and the words of my grandma for women marrying in creme or beige (“she wasn´t a maiden, she married in creme”) - this thinking seem to exist beside the practice of using the sunday´s best in any colour (and this mostly was a suit rather than a dress in the 1940´s and 1950s, as my grandma said, because suits were more fashionable or “urban”).
 
The wedding dress you painted is very beautiful. If it can be realized, I want to try to wear it.
 
I know I had to wait at least two years after joining before my spiritual director would let me begin seriously discerning a call to religious life (though he did let drop in one of our earlier meetings that there had been some discussions with others about whether or not I was being called in that direction before I had ever said anything).

Two years of discernment later and I still have no idea what God is asking of me… It’s definitely not an overnight process.
 
These dresses were already drawn and I added on some things
 
Sorry, I seldom log in to these forums.

Clarifications: The minimum age set by ESI is 25, and it sounds to be at least 5 years of initial formation.

Wedding dresses for the CV needn’t be simple (unless we’re talking about religious who receive the consecration; then it is up to their own customs). We do not make vows of poverty, and there are plenty of traditions of wearing one’s best gowns in giving oneself to God! I just don’t understand why women seem to think we have to wear sackcloth and ashes to the consecration when even the poor St. Clare wore her jewels.
 
Since there are about 4 threads on consecrated virginity atm I thought it was a good time for you to pay a visit.
 
I’d probably look better in sackcloth than in white anything anyway.

Seriously, much as I appreciate the idea, white makes me look like I should be in the hospital.
 
That’s when “Champagne” or Ivory comes in. My wedding dress was 42 years old as it was my mom’s. It was not white, it was Champagne. She said it never was a really “white white.” Some skin tones, like my light freckled skin, looks better with ivory. 😊
 
Irishmom2 said:
That’s when “Champagne” or Ivory comes in. My wedding dress was 42 years old as it was my mom’s. It was not white, it was Champagne. She said it never was a really “white white.” Some skin tones, like my light freckled skin, looks better with ivory. 😊
Click to expand...
The old tradition I was told was that ivory or other off-white shades were for women who weren’t “worthy” of the white dress. Married in ivory was a sure sign that the bride wasn’t a virgin!
 
Yeah, well when I got married 30 years ago… people wore them because the color looked better.

Traditions are made to be broken. 😏
 
Honestly, my best idea was just to get a traditional skirt, and pair it with a top in some other color.

Cheaper that way too. Once you put “wedding” in the name it gets all expensive.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top