I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty sure both women and men would agree that there is something especially sexy about a bride. It's more than just getting dolled up and splurging on an expensive trip to the salon. And its more than the white princess gown. Truly, a wedding is perhaps the time a woman will look her very best, glowing from the pure joy of her special day. It's a time most young girls grow up dreaming about. A wedding day is romantic without parallel, and the bride is the center of it all. But there's more than just the celebration, there's a sexuality, too. The white of the "virgin," (even though we all know she's had a few boyfriends before the groom.) There's the sense of her going from "available" to "spoken for." Maybe to some that's an added sense of the end of sexual freedom; or to others, just the opposite, a rite of passage to no longer being a girl or a girlfriend, but a woman and a wife.
Maybe for these reasons, weddings are so thick with sexual energy. Maybe that's why bridesmaids are always hooking up with groomsmen. And why their is so much giddy joking about the "wedding night."
This picture is cute. It seems to sum up the contrast between wedding and honeymoon. On the left, the bride is dressed for her lovely outdoor wedding; on the right, the day has passed and she kicks back in a hot tub at the lakeside lodge, starting off her honeymoon. She's smiling, and still glows.
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