the story of us

So historically, a bridesmaid duties were of a more serious, if not at least supernatural, nature in earlier days.   A custom 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 similar to the bride’s, while male wedding attendants 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.

Nowdays, the selection of similar colours and designs still persists and has become the norm.  But for me,  I think the only rule I have is that the dress is black (so they can reuse it again) and is the same material as one another (and possibly mine). The dresses can be different styles as well.   In terms of length, I think floor length is appropriate for a winter wedding, but I’ll leave that up to the girls.

I think since it’ll be cold at that time, we should wear those faux fur shawls.   Actually, I had purchased these as a gift to the girls from Alex Bridal on Etsy.

It’s okay, I’ve already given them this gift, so it’s not surprise.

The only other thing that I think that’s missing from their outfit is a pearl necklace.  I was going to take a class to learn how to make hand knotted pearls, but I think I may just purchase them instead.  We’ll see….

I’ve been on this DIY kick lately, so I may just take on this task.

Surprisingly nothing much has happened over the past month or so.  Well nothing feels like it’s been happening, so I’ve decided to write the list of things that have been done and that still need to be done down so that I can focus. Thanks to www.weddingbells.ca I was able to figure it all out in just a few button clicks.