THERE IS A STORY BEHIND EVERY WEDDING DRESS



The wedding dress...every bride searches for the "perfect one".
I came accross this wonderful article in the Toronto Metro by Sarah Cannavan. I wish I had know about this book when I was getting married. I think I will still purchase it because it is a keepsake for that special piece of clothing that made me shine my personality on my wedding day.

Enjoy the read everyone!

Complete Article:

There are few pieces of clothing that are as steeped in tradition and hold such vivid memories as the wedding dress. Whether old, new, borrowed or blue, women around the world would agree there is a story behind every dress. In the new book, My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle, 26 writers share their struggles and joys of finding the perfect dress. The idea for the collection originated five years ago when Susan Whelehan and Anne Laurel Carter were sitting around Whelehan’s kitchen table with a group of fellow writers. “We sat together and wrote about our wedding dresses. All of us were very impressed by what this prompt brought out in us,” said Carter. “I knew it was a good idea for an anthology.”
Carter and Whelehan pitched the idea to Random House, which led the publishing house to ask some of their in-house writers to contribute stories. They also contacted Writer’s Unions looking for a variety of stories. “We had very hard selection meetings,” said Carter. “We received more than 80 stories.” One of the stories selected was The Wedding Promise written by Jenny Manzer. She lost her mother to cancer the day before her wedding, but went ahead with the ceremony because she promised her mother she would. “We were all so sure about what my mother would have wanted it didn’t occur to us to not have the wedding.” Carter said it was critical for her to find different voices from different cultural backgrounds.
“The dress is a symbol of how we see ourselves. It can really be a statement,” said Carter. “I think every woman who reads the stories will respond in a similar way.”

Sarah Cannavan for Metro Toronto

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Irina