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Traditional Irish Wedding Dress

In Ireland, blue is a lucky color so that the bride often wears a dress in this color. The traditional Irish bride often wears a blue color wedding dress. This is because blue symbolized purity in ancient times.

Filipino Wedding Dress

Philippines Wedding Dress

The white wedding dress became popular in the last hundred years with the influence of America in the Philippines. Before that, the brides wore their festive color or stylish black best dresses for the wedding. Orange blossom bouquets and adornments were a necessity during the turn of the last century.

Shalwar Kameez Wedding Dress

Beautiful Purple Salwar Kameez Wedding Dress

Shalwar-Kameez (urdu/farsi: شلوار قمیض), is one of the traditional dresses that are traditionally worn by the women in Pakistan and Bangladesh. But since the 20th century, women in Southern India have also copied this dress complementing the Sari, the traditional dress of India. The outfit comprises of a kameez (shirt), salwar (trousers) and dupatta/chunni (stole).

Holoku, Hawaiian Traditional Wedding Dress

Traditional Holoku Wedding Dress

Traditional Hawaiian wedding dress are called holoku and were originally adapted from missionary outfits with long sleeves, loose fitting, high neck, and worn with grace and style.

Traditional Scottish Tartan Wedding Dress

Traditional Scottish Tartan Wedding Dress

Tartan is worn by Scottish brides, either on her plain white gown trimmed with tartan ribbons, as a tartan shawl draped around her shoulders or tied as a sash at her waist.

Traditional Grecian Wedding Dress

Goddess Grecian Wedding Dress

Grecian wedding dresses were extremely adored and appreciated by the modern brides because a dress like that manages to give them a very splendid, sophisticated, sexy and exotic look.

Traditional Spanish Wedding Dress

Traditional Spanish Wedding Dress

A truly traditional Spanish wedding dress is a silk black with lacy mantillas to show their devotion until death.

Traditional Saudi Arabian Wedding Dress

Traditional Saudi Arabian Wedding Dress

In Saudi Arabia, the bride adorns traditional dress known as Zaboun and Yashmak, which is embroidered with golden and silver thread.

Elizabethan Wedding Dress

Gorgeous Elizabethan Wedding Dress

In Elizabethan Weddings, the bride did not wear a white wedding dress, this was a later tradition. The wedding garments belonging to the majority of brides were generally made from Flax, Cotton and wool. Colours came in a variety of different shades: red, blue, greens, white, grey, black, orange and tan.

Traditional Fijian Wedding Dress

Fijian Wedding Dress Couple

Similar with Samoan wedding dress, Fijian Wedding Dress was made of the bark of a Mulberry tree called Tapa. The tapa clothes are all raw fiber but soft enough to bend and shape.

Traditional Samoan Wedding Dress

Traditional Samoan Brides Wedding Dress

Brides from Samoa make their traditional wedding gowns using tapa cloth, which they obtain from the barks of mulberries.

Hanbok, Colorful Korean Traditional Wedding Dress

Hanbok Wedding Dress

Hanbok is the traditional ceremonial attire worn by women and men on weddings and other special occasions. It is often characterized by vibrant colors and simple lines without pockets.

Aso Oke, Traditional Nigerian Wedding Dress

Aso oke is a hand loomed cloth woven by the Yoruba people of south west Nigeria. Aso oke means top cloth in the English language. Usually woven by men, the fabric is used to make men's gowns, called Agbada, women's wrappers, called iro, and men's hats, called fila.