Victorian Style Wedding Dresses

The Victorian style wedding dresses that we think of today get their look from Queen Victoria’s wedding gown in 1840. She wore a long white wedding gown of rich satin, trimmed with orange flower blossoms.

The head dress was a wreath of orange flower blossoms, covered by a veil of thick Honiton lace. Her bridesmaids also wore white, with seasonal flowers acting as wreaths. The dress had a long train, carried by the 12 bridesmaids.

"Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue, and a lucky sixpence in your shoe", as the saying goes, a Victorian girl right from her birth dreamt of nothing but her marriage. She should marry and marry well.

A sneak peak into the extravagant upper class life in the movie Titanic, or turning the pages of a Jane Austen novel might depict how important a wedding was.

In following this tradition, typical modern Victorian style wedding dresses would be comprised of a fitted bodice with a small waist, a full skirt, ribbons for the neck, a nice brooch, kid gloves or knee length gloves and a beautifully beaded purse and handkerchief. You can surf through websites for pictures and order your wedding dress from a designer or order online.

Or if you're really creative or know someone who is, you may even be able to create a custom designed gown starting from a vintage dress purchased from a consignment shop or redesign your grandmother's wedding dress.

Corset wedding dresses are typical of the Victorian era wedding dresses and brides wore tight corsets during Victorian time also. And the modest high neckline also depicts the Victorian era.

Ideally, the dress should be made from organdy, rich satin, silk, tulle, with lots of lace and cashmere.

However with a deluge of different materials available now, a lot of experimentation can be done on materials to create an individualized look suitable to your wedding theme.

Bridal jewelry would be simple, subtle, generally gifted by the groom in diamonds or pearls, or a nice tiara to go with the dress. Silk stockings embroidered up to the front, and flat shoes with stones or sequins are just perfect.

Gloves with a seam split that would facilitate the ring being put on are a signature and fresh flowers used as a headpiece is a wonderful way to complete the look of Victorian style wedding dresses.

Think of chandeliers, crystals and fringes, and laces, and pin up hair styles long flowing gowns, ferns, mean with black tail coats, with white gloves, and Mozart playing un-annoyingly at the background and you can envision Victorian style wedding dresses covering a shy veiled bride walking up the aisle!

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