Who Buys a Wedding Dress — the Bride or the Groom (29 Photos)

Pre-wed­ding chores and fuss cap­ti­vate not only the main heroes of the occa­sion, but all rel­a­tives. Every­one wants to con­tribute to the wed­ding, to give advice and valu­able (in their opin­ion) instruc­tion. And yet there are tra­di­tions. To com­ply with them or not is a ques­tion for the bride and groom, who them­selves must decide whether their wed­ding will be clas­sic and tra­di­tion­al or non-stan­dard and mod­ern. There are many wed­ding tra­di­tions and they apply to lit­er­al­ly every­thing. Even the pur­chase of a wed­ding dress can be deter­mined by cus­toms that have come down to us from our ances­tors.

In Rus­sia, it was cus­tom­ary for the bride to cre­ate her own wed­ding attire, as well as to pre­pare the dowry for her­self. By the beau­ty and dec­o­ra­tion of the dress, one could judge the girl’s abil­i­ties, her skill and dili­gence. There­fore, every girl want­ed to appear before the guests and rel­a­tives in the most beau­ti­ful and rich­ly dec­o­rat­ed dress. By the way, accord­ing to tra­di­tion, it should have been red.

Over time, these tra­di­tions began to be for­got­ten, and the wealthy par­ents of the bride hired tai­lors to cre­ate wed­ding dec­o­ra­tions. Even the col­or of the dress changed from red to white and pas­tel.

If the groom man­aged to vis­it Europe, then he tried to bring a dress for his future bride from there. And so the opin­ion was born that the groom should buy a wed­ding dress.

In the Sovi­et Union, the wed­ding cel­e­bra­tion itself and the prepa­ra­tion for it were sim­pli­fied, and ancient tra­di­tions began to be for­got­ten. Not much time was devot­ed to the wed­ding, dress­es for the bride and groom were ordered at the near­est ate­lier, acces­sories were bought at the store, and the cel­e­bra­tion itself was held in a cafe or restau­rant.

Many believe that the groom and his fam­i­ly should bear the cost of buy­ing not only the dress, but all addi­tion­al items. This tra­di­tion is more com­mon in Cen­tral, South­east Asia and among Cau­casian res­i­dents.

The out­fit is cho­sen entire­ly by the groom’s rel­a­tives, includ­ing jew­el­ry, which can only be gold. In this way, the groom’s fam­i­ly demon­strates their wealth and how strong the groom’s feel­ings for the bride are.

It would be fool­ish to refuse the groom’s offer to pay for your wed­ding dress. It is only nec­es­sary to pre-nego­ti­ate the total amount that you can have.

If the dress you chose turned out to be more expen­sive, then either you will have to pay the dif­fer­ence your­self, or look for a more bud­get option.

A com­mon sit­u­a­tion is that the groom buys a dress, while the cost of acces­sories is borne by the bride.

Sit­u­a­tions can be dif­fer­ent and it is pos­si­ble that rel­a­tives from the side of the bride will buy the dress. In this case, you need to take your moth­er by the hand and gath­er close friends whose opin­ion you trust.

Here you also need to know the amount that you can count on, to have an idea about the style and style that suits you.

In Euro­pean coun­tries, all wed­ding expens­es are shared between the new­ly­weds. Par­ents take lit­tle part in any­thing.

If the wed­ding takes place in Ger­many and no wed­ding is fore­seen, then the bride choos­es not even a wed­ding dress for her­self, but sim­ply a fes­tive or ele­gant one, which she buys on her own.

Brides from the East mar­ry in a dress bought by the groom’s rel­a­tives.

In Amer­i­ca, the bride must choose the garters her­self, which are not just an acces­so­ry and an ele­ment of under­wear. They throw them­selves as a groom into a crowd of their unmar­ried friends. This tra­di­tion is very sim­i­lar to toss­ing a bou­quet. This tra­di­tion is becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar in Rus­sia.

If you look at Brazil, the groom’s fam­i­ly does not take any part in choos­ing and buy­ing a dress for the bride — every­thing falls on the shoul­ders of the bride’s rel­a­tives.

The mod­ern world has its own rules that deter­mine the fea­tures of the process of prepar­ing for a wed­ding. No one gets so hung up on who should still buy a dress for the bride.

Increas­ing­ly, young peo­ple make up a gen­er­al bud­get that goes to all items of expen­di­ture. If a woman is wealthy enough, then most like­ly she her­self will want not only to buy a dress, but also pay for half of the ban­quet.

No mat­ter how the sit­u­a­tion devel­ops in your case, it is imper­a­tive to agree on the choice of style in cloth­ing for the bride and groom.