Chapter 1230: Wedding Dress (2)
In ancient times, wealthy families generally began preparing their daughters’ dowries from the moment they were born. This included furniture, bedding, jewelry, clothing, and so on. Naturally, this also encompassed the bride’s wedding dress and veil, which had to be hand-embroidered by themselves. Some wedding dresses could take years to complete.
I remember watching a TV program in my past life that introduced the ancient Thousand Skills Bed, which also took years to make.
However, in the countryside, poor families didn’t have such troubles. They only started preparing the dowry after the betrothal. The rich gave more, while those without money sometimes had no dowry at all. Regardless, the wedding dress still had to be personally prepared by the bride’s side, and even the simplest ones took months to embroider. For example, Liang Xiaoyu began working on her wedding dress after she got engaged to Yang Xiaoliu, and now it was only half done.
Yang Ruxin had not expected to be in such a hurry to marry Gu Qingheng, especially since she was still young. However, the prospect of an impending war forced her to make such a decision. Since she had already set her heart on this man, she did not want him to leave with regrets.
Marriage was a matter between two people. She did not care about formalities and had no time to prepare a wedding dress. Therefore, she planned to buy two ready-made wedding dresses from the Wei Family’s Longfeng Embroidery Village; their dresses were very well made, at least in her eyes, they were extremely exquisite.
However, Gu Qingheng stopped her and said there was no need for her to worry.
On the eighth day, someone delivered two camphor wood chests.
"How beautiful the wedding dress is," Erni exclaimed, mouth agape as she looked at the opened chest.
"And this crown, oh my... such fine gold threads..." Sanni was so surprised that she was rendered speechless, her hand covering her mouth.