Traditional Weddings

It's a dramatic shift in weddings from fifty years ago, this quest for individuality. No more the conformity of my parents' generation, which married in obedience to orthodoxy and script.

In this very progressive and independent society many aspects of traditional wedding planning have been dropped by the wayside. Is it still traditional, or, for that matter, appropriate for the groom-to-be to ask for the father-of-the-bride's "blessing" before he asks his love to marry him?

The earliest bridesmaids always wore white, dressed as mirror images of the bride they were attending. Bridesmaids, you see, were invented as a sort of human decoy.