The heritage of wedding goes much beyond two people exchanging vows and saying their “I do’s”. It runs much deeper than lifting the veil and kissing the bride. The traditional western ‘white’ wedding was popularized by the Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. While many political commentators feel that choosing the white color for wedding signified extravagance— feminist theorists believe that it was just a symbol to signify that the girl is still a virgin or is sexually pure. Even though in today’s time and pop culture, a wedding cannot be imagined without the traditional white wedding gown, how many of us even hark back to its past notions? With wedding gowns now being especially designed by fashion houses, they have now been raised to the level of being haute couture rather than being just simple wedding gowns.

Wedding as a heritage is slowly and steadily falling out of favor in the 21^st century. That is because an individual is not bound to remain married to another individual for their whole life. Divorces are becoming rampant and second or third marriages are becoming popular. What’s more, people are doing away with the concept of marriages altogether are starting to live together without any formal ceremony. Church marriages are becoming unpopular because according to many, these are cumbersome. So more and more people are choosing to have just a court marriage and throwing a party for friends and family after that. The concept of the white wedding gown too seems to have found less and less takers nowadays especially for women marrying for the second time or at an older ager. They choose to stick to chic designer outfits rather than a billowing white gown. So wedding as a heritage concept is slowly seeing rather a die-out.