If youd like to get a look at wedding history be on the lookout for whats being called the Wedded Perfection Tour. In essence, this is a museum show of an exhibit put on by the Cincinnati Art Museum of over 200 years of wedding gowns and styles. It ran in Cincinnati from October through January, including wedding giveaways for lucky couples, and since then its gone on tour, being sponsored by the museum. This past weekend it was in central New York with a viewing at the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY.

Its an amazingly visual show that came about by the combined talents of curator Cynthia Amnéus, professor Sara Long Butler and associate professor Katherine Jellison of Ohio University. With planning that began in 2004, they were able to obtain wedding gowns from the 18th century all the way through to todays designers and styles. The show is a combination of wedding gowns, bridesmaids dresses and other accessories that were in vogue during various times. The show also spawned a publication of the same name, which was published in November 2010.

Anyone who believed that wedding dresses from an earlier period would mainly be white would be surprised to learn that many wedding gowns came in colors. The professor found that many ads for wedding gowns in the early 1900s offered dresses in many colors and shades of those colors. Also, the lengths of wedding gowns varied; there werent any short enough to be considered as mini skirt length, but there were many that came to the knees or slightly above.

And of course wedding dresses mirrored the popular styles of the periods in which they were made. So dresses from the 60s matched up with funky styles younger people were wearing, and wedding gowns from the late 20s match up in their own way with the straight-waisted flapper style that was popular then.

It just goes to show that every generation has its style of wedding dress, and thus makes it easier to recommend that each bride selects her own style that shes comfortable with.

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