there's nothing quite as unstylish as a floor length wedding dress and yards and yards of white (virginal) train thats been dragged through a soggy westminster even if there are yards and yards of cute little bridesmaids attempting to hold it out of the puddles.
what a disaster if one of these cute kiddies or the bride herself slips on all this wet messy satin.
well it does rain in london quite often even on a royal wedding day, so lets produce a waterproof wedding dress and a head-dress with veil that acts as a fashionable guttering that cleanly carries all that water away from the bride.
just had a thought; rain, white wedding dresses and horses - don't lets even go there...-- po, Apr 25 2011 "It's a nice day for a wet wedding" http://4.bp.blogspo...-wedding-photos.jpgWith apologies to Billy Idol [normzone, Apr 25 2011] Not this http://www.cheap-ch...g-contest-2006.html [hippo, Apr 27 2011] You are downright brilliant some days, po. +-- blissmiss, Apr 25 2011 Gore-Tex, I think the brand name is. Waterproof but allows water vapour (steam/gasseous water) to leave the body. I don't think we want Willy to be known as Wet Willy after the consummation of the vows.-- 4whom, Apr 25 2011 I see it now, Kate walking down the aisle with steam all around her. The look on William's face would be unbelievable, I'd bet.-- blissmiss, Apr 25 2011 It should be white neoprene-- hippo, Apr 26 2011 This would also reduce food stains, such that Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid und Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut.-- spidermother, Apr 26 2011 As Wossname approaches a puddle, some latter-day Walter Raleigh darts out of the crowd & throws his plastic mac across it -- then falls dead at her feet, riddled with bullets by the SAS snipers on the rooftops.-- mouseposture, Apr 27 2011 what a sad state of affairs [mouse]-- po, Apr 27 2011 White latex, with a seam right up the err... Middleton.-- infidel, May 01 2011 //Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid und Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut.//
You see, here's the underlying problem. Very few other nationalities would even consider inventing a word like "Brautkleid" and, if they did, they would use to mean something like "industrial effluent" or "hernia".-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 01 2011 //Very few other nationalities would even consider inventing a word like "Brautkleid"//
The Germans do it so that other nationalities don't have to. Selfless, really.
(The reason ""brautkleid" doesn't mean "hernia" is that German has another, even better word for that.)-- mouseposture, May 01 2011 Yes, but "Leistenbruch" just sounds like the name of an industrial town.-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 01 2011 I was thinking of "eingeweidebruch."-- mouseposture, May 01 2011 random, halfbakery