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Oleg Cassini Satin A-line gown with twist strap detail
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Many people have the misconceived notion that the most gorgeous wedding dresses should be accomplished with complicated and skilfully crafted, embellished with sequins or designed in the freakiest concept. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Simplicity can be the most beautiful thing in the world. Oleg Cassini knows it well.
The above is Satin A-line gown with twist strap detail, ruched waist, and bow in back. Chapel train.
Ruched : tight decorative gathers which create flattering pleats in the fabric.
This is a special piece of dress by Oleg Cassini. At first I thought it is not his typical style but then the sensuality of it reminded me of the way Elizabeth dressed up, in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. It is one of the few simple yet appealing wedding dresses exist in the fashion world. After all, it is not an easy job to design the concept of simplicity with sensuality in mind. You need years of experience and talent which, I swear, can only be found in Oleg Cassini.
For weddings readings, we have Traditional Irish Blessing. I would love pairing it with an article entitled Pairing With No Wedding to open up your mind and have a little lesson on those days where wedding was not yet a word:P
Traditional Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
May God be with you and bless you;
May you see your children’s children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.
Pairing With No Wedding
Do you know how the Arabs paired themselves up to become man and wife in the Age of the Agnorance, aka the Pre-Islamic Period? In those days wedding was never heard of.
A few prospective young men, say around ten of them, were admirers of a certain woman. They then took turns to sleep with her. If the woman got pregnated and gave birth to a child, she would, a few days later, summon all the men together in front of her. Then, she would say to them,”As you all knows what you have done upon me, and now I have borne you a child. And the child is yours(she would then call out, among them, the name of the man she adored). The child thus immediately found its father. There was no denial about it. The man had to take the woman as his wife.
I would venture to make a guess. I presume that period of their sleeping together was their “wedding” according to today’s jargon. They already became husband and wife i.e. they had consummated their marriage at the time of their wedding.
But today, before the consummation of a marriage, a wedding has to be arranged.
Or, are we reverting to the Pre-Islamic Period of the Arabs in this so-called Digital Age where consummation comes before a wedding? Where co-habitation precedes wedding?
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Hi, I am Stefanie. I am currently studying in a fashion design school in Melbourne. My dream is to run my own wedding shop and design hundreds of gorgeous wedding dresses like Oleg Cassini so the blissful brides can put on the extra blessings by me. I am now serving the wedding community by listing the best 66 weddings readings along with the most gorgeous all-time wedding dresses to gear you up before stepping in the altar.
