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Vera Wang Ivory Cotton Tulle & Twill Charmeuse Gown
This wedding gown “Ivory cotton tulle & twill charmeuse gown. Strapless soft mermaid with rouched bust and back bow detail with signature wintergarden corsage.” is one of my favorite wedding dresses in Vera Wang collection. If you know me well you know how much I love simplicity.
Though the wedding dress is simple, it has a long-tailed name haha. Clean and simple, this ivory cotton tulle is anyway priceless. You are going to be the most blessed bride in history if you can wear it on your wedding ceremony day.
Charmeuse : Lightweight shimmery satin with a soft, contouring drape.
Ruched : Tight decorative gathers which create flattering pleats in the fabric.
For weddings readings, we have the back-to-back readings by the author of “How Do I Love Thee” we feature in the previous article. Let’s introduce Elizabeth Barrett Browning again. We have one of the all-time romantic weddings readings entitled “If Thou Must Love Me”. Sweet?
IF THOU MUST LOVE ME
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
‘I love her for her smile - her look - her way
Of speaking gently,- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee - and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.
Polygynous Weddings
Polygymy is a more specific term for the practice of wedding more than one wife. In the polygynous weddings, the first wife usually has a more important position than others. However, all the wives are treated fairly and they either live together or close to one another. They may even live far apart. The father claims all the children and supports them. Fair enough.
The Muslim religion acknowledge polygymy. But only men who are rich enough and able to support big families are likely to wed more than one wife. Even that, they are allowed to marry up to four wives only.
In comparison, polygynous weddings are far more popular than polyandrous weddings, another specific term for polygamy, ( Remember “polyandry” I touched on in the previous article?)
While the Muslim religion permits a man to wed a maximum of four wives, in some religion there is no limit as to the number of woman a man can wed.
Polygymy is widely practiced among the Africans. Among the many customs attributing to polygymy is the custom of levirate. According to this custom, a man is obliged to wed the widow of his own brother whereas in places where the sororate custom is observed, if a wife bears no children, the husband will then wed her sister. Their relationship has now turned from brother-in-law and sister-in-law to husband and wife. Isn’t this interesting? The other interesting thing about this is, some or all of the children born as a result of the second wedding will belong to the barren wife.
Monogamy is my first choice. Polygymy comes next. Polygamy and polyandry are not in my mind. How about you?
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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.
