Back to Front Address the Dress

  The wedding photographer never sees the moment  the bride sets out to choose her dress.

       Do brides buy wedding magazines for months in advance and keep pages of the styles they like? Do they rush to the high street and try on everything in sight? And what about the net? We don't know if anybody ever decides in advance to buy a wedding dress on-line or only in desperation after weeks of failing to shop until they drop and only succeeding in trying-on until they drop. 
       Somehow it doesn't seem very romantic buying a wedding dress on the net. So is girlie enthusiasm and anticipation of the shopping spree ahead of them a necessary part of the build up to the special day?
       Or do some families decide to keep costs down and look on Ebay perhaps? Maybe they should. I’m amazed by what I’ve seen. Gorgeous creations with amazing descriptions: 
       One shoulder, with mermaid and trumpet (oh how I want a mermaid with a trumpet), champagne flower, organza flower, and dozens of sweetheart necklines, lace ups, and bright satin waterfalls. 

The arrival of the bride.

      There are dresses puffed up like parachutes, dresses squeezed like tubes of toothpaste, headless silhouettes, and models wrapped and strapped like Egyptian mummies.
        I’m surprised at how snow blind you can get just checking through a few pages of these fabulous angel cake creations.

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The wedding over, the bridal couple leave the church

          From Disney to da Vinci, via Watteau and St Patrick. 

         What are these names, railway stations, racehorses? Probably. But on-line they are wedding dress designers and there are thousands of them. The models are elegant, pouty, sultry, gorgeous,  cute, haughty, sexy, glamorous or downright ordinary but none of them look remotely like a bride.

            Why is that?
             What is the difference between models in wedding dresses and a bride?

              It's the excitement, the glow, an aura surrounds the bride. The models may be graceful, beautiful, and have wonderful figures, but not one of them has an atom of the pride and joy of a real, live bride in her dress, on her day.

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