On any wedding, be it in a picturesque little chapel, a big-domed church, or inside a judge’s courtroom, there is none other that the people look forward to seeing more than the bride. On this day, she is the most beautiful of them all. It’s the ending to any movie or any story. You know it’s coming and it’s what you wait patiently for.
Now, no wedding story is complete without the wedding dress. And this is no ordinary dress. It doesn’t matter that it may have been handed down from your great-great-grandmother, or that it was bought in some thrift shop that also sells clown suits. It doesn’t even matter if it was designed by Vera Wang, where you don’t alter the dress; the bride alters herself. What matters is the time and thought given into finding the perfect wedding dress.
Finding the perfect wedding dress is like looking for a hairstyle that suits you. You don’t just flip though dozens of those glossy salon magazines and pick the one you like best. We’ve seen tragic results on hapless women after they watched Demi Moore in Ghost. No. You choose the style that enhances your physical attributes to its very best. It doesn’t only need to look beautiful. It makes the wearer look and feel beautiful.
The wedding dress has to define the body’s contour in a manner that leaves the wearer to walk confidently, secretly knowing that in walking down the aisle, the room is suddenly full of admirers. The dress in itself becomes like plumage that makes courting birds attractive. It is the lover that moves in perfect synchrony with every step she makes closer to the man she has pledged to spend the rest of her life with. It is the armor which gives her courage to walk among her sexier peers, her hard-to-please great-aunt or the old flame who just happened to be part of the choir. It is the music that accompanies her, singing out to everyone; trying to express the raw bliss she is feeling inside with every heartbeat.
