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The wedding day is a celebration of a bride's farewell to single hood and a welcome entrance to marriage life. For every bride, the single most important object of their obsession is the dream wedding dress - radiantly white and splendidly cut to show off their physical beauty. A woman can spend weeks looking at pictures of different wedding dresses in fashion magazines and wedding guides in search of that perfect wedding dress. In the world of wedding dresses, however, white is always the new black. Variations in color may exist for the occasional rebel, but for the general population of wedding fashion gurus, wedding guests, and brides-to-be, white is the traditional color for wedding day celebrations.

Women used to wear any wedding dress they like in any color of their choice except for black (which was associated with death and mourning) or red (which was associated with prostitutes). Sometimes these wedding dresses would be a mixture of hues in stunning variations.

The white wedding dress, however, changed everything. It all began with the marriage of Queen Victoria to her cousin Albert of Saxe-Coburg. She wore a white wedding dress for the event. When the official wedding portrait photograph was widely published, many brides opted for a wedding dress of similar hue in honor of that choice.

The white wedding dress came to symbolize purity of heart and the innocence of childhood. Later it also came to symbolize virginity. However, it was originally the color blue that was connected to purity. Hence the wedding adage: “something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue."

There is an old wedding poem about how the color of your wedding dress will influence your future:

"Married in white, you will have chosen all right.
Married in grey, you will go far away.
Married in black, you will wish yourself back.
Married in red, you’ll wish yourself dead.
Married in blue, you will always be true.
Married in pearl, you’ll live in a whirl.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen,
Married in yellow, ashamed of the fellow,
Married in brown, you’ll live out of town.
Married in pink, your spirits will sink."

Therefore, carefully choose the color of your wedding dress. Even if the poem is just a figment of a poet's imagination, the color of a dress can affect a wedding day celebration. Colors can influence our moods and behavior. Make sure your wedding dress is either white or blue, the only colors whose lasting effect (according to the poem) is a right and true marriage life.

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http://www.fromtimespast.com/wedding.htm

Wedding Dress - Wikipedia
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White Wedding - Wikipedia
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The name "Connecticut" comes from the Mohegan Indian word "Quinnehtukqut" meaning "Long River Place" or "Beside the Long Tidal River." Connecticut is the fifth of the original thirteen states. The first Europeans to settle permanently in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Historically important colonial settlements included Windsor (1633), Westhersfield (1634), Saybrook (1635), Hartford (1636), New Haven (1638), and New London (1646). Its first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted on January 14, 1639, while its current constitution, the third for Connecticut, was adopted in 1965. The traditional abbreviation of the state's name is "Conn." Connecticut's official nickname, adopted in 1959, is "The Constitution State."

According to Webster's New International Dictionary, 1993, a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a "Connecticuter". There are numerous other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" - Cotton Mather in 1702. "Connecticutensian" - Samuel Peters in 1781. "Nutmegger" is sometimes used. It is derived from the nickname, the Nutmeg State, based on the practice of the Connecticut peddlers who traveled about selling nutmegs. There is not, however, any nickname that has been officially adopted by the State for its residents.

Connecticut was particularly hard-hit on 9/11 as many of the state's residents work in New York City. Seventy-two Connecticut residents were killed. Many schools in Connecticut closed for the day because of the number of students who had parents who worked in New York City.

Economy
The total gross state product for 2004 was $187 billion. The per capita income for 2004 was $45,506, ranking first among the states . There is, however, a great disparity in incomes through the state; although New Canaan has one of the highest per capita incomes in America, Hartford is one of the ten cities with the lowest per capita incomes in America. This is due to Fairfield County having become a bedroom community for higher-paid New York City workers seeking a less urban lifestyle, as well as the spread of businesses outwards from New York City having reached into southwestern Connecticut, most notably to Stamford. The state did not have an income tax until 1991, making it an attractive haven for high earners fleeing the heavy taxes of New York State, but putting an enormous burden on Connecticut property tax payers, particularly in the cities with their more extensive municipal services. As a result, the middle class largely fled the urban areas for the suburbs, taking stores and other tax-paying businesses with them, and leaving only the urban poor in the now impoverished Connecticut cities. As evident from the dichotomy in income figures described above, this problem has yet to be successfully solved. Exacerbating this problem, the state has a very high cost of living, due to a combination of expensive real estate, expensive heating for the winters, the need to import much food from warmer states, and the dependence on private automobiles for mobility.

Trivia
* Connecticut is the southernmost state in New England and the wealthiest state in the country per capita as well as the third smallest state in landmass. It was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.

* Due to the prominence of the aircraft industry in Connecticut in the mid-Twentieth Century, Connecticut has an official state aircraft, the F4U Corsair, and an official Connecticut Aviation Pioneer, Igor Sikorsky. In addition, the state legislature officially recognizes the claim of aircraft designer Gustav Whitehead to have had the world's first successful powered aircraft flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut, two years before the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.

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