The One Dress All Woman Want To Wear

In a week or so I will marry my fiance, it will be a small affair at the registry office/city hall, with friends and family, but no fancy reception afterwards. This however doesn't mean that I won't be wearing a wedding dress. I'm not going Carrie from the SITC movie and doing quiet and understated, nope I have the dress I bought almost a year ago which I fell desperately in love with, almost as much as my soon-to-be husband. I won't go into the ins-and-outs of how wonderful and beautiful it is, because frankly that's not the point of this blog. No, the point is that some how the wedding dress is sacred. Since I'll soon be married I tried on, once again the beautiful garment and when taking it off found myself almost lovingly re-lacing the bodice. I found myself pondering the sacred-ity of it, remembering that even nun's when taking their vows to their god wear some kind of wedding dress. A friend of mine has always said she'd never have a wedding dress, says she can't see the point, considers it a waste of good money and yet something tells me that when the time comes she might just reconsider that point. Even the most unromantic women finds herself longing to be a princess on her wedding day. We all search for the moment when we can live our happy ever after, and perhaps the mysticism of the wedding dress is that somewhere in our heart of hearts we honestly believe that wearing it for that one moment in our lives turns us, somehow, into a fairy princess where all our dreams can come true. The man we marry becomes our handsome prince, our carriage awaits and the glass slipper is returned, the kiss awakens us from sleep and the poisoned apple is cast aside. Maybe its why we search so dilgently when our time comes to marry for the perfect dress, the one that awakens that desire to be a princess. Still the wedding dress, though we wear it but for one day, is a treasure on the road of life, filled with mysticism and wonder. The one item of clothing that no matter how different signifies romance, failed or successful, happy or tragic, like a rose or a diamond we have instilled in it all our hopes of happiness and seeing others happy on their wedding day strengthens those ideas. No matter how developed society as a whole becomes there will always be the wedding dress, even when we're too smart to wear clothes or worry about the bodies of others. Over and out!