The decision to marry is not a choice that only concerns you. Your families will do everything to support you in this important moment of transition and, as well as fill you with questions, they will almost certainly give you an economic help for the purchase of the wedding dress or for the rental of the wedding location.


And what about the house? You will obviously have to move your clothes to your new residence (including wedding shoes that you can reuse after weddings, sportswear and elegant formal dresses) but not only: you will need furniture, dishes, towels and bed linen ... and a thousand other things. It will be perhaps then that you will be reminded of a word that is both anachronistic and fundamental: the bridal outfit.
History of the wedding kit

In the past, the wedding set was associated with the dowry one shoulder lace wedding dresses, the sum of money or the ownership of land and buildings that the bride's family gave to the groom as a sign of gratitude for having welcomed the daughter into her family and to allow her to contribute to the maintenance of same. In fact, the kit represented the visible part of the dowry: it was the most precious household linen and household items in the possession of the bride, symbols of its social status and representative of the constant work of embroidery and decoration that the women of the family had undertaken since birth of the child.

Usually the items of the kit were delivered starting from 6 elements, continuing with multiples of that number: 24 sheets, 12 towels and 6 for guests, 12 tablecloths and so on. Not to mention the silk nightgowns, hand-embroidered handkerchiefs and lace lingerie. The value of the bridal outfit varied according to the economic availability of each family big princess wedding dresses, but proportionately it was always an important investment, equal to or higher than what your parents could spend on your wedding dress in lace.