Bride
A bride in a wedding dress is a good dream of a new bond and a turning point in life. A bride laughing brightly is read as a smooth beginning, and being the bride yourself marks that your heart has already leaned toward the thing you are about to take on. Seeing someone else as the bride means a celebration or welcome news nearby. Even a bride in tears is not an ill omen; it is the tension that stands before a large change. That said, this dream does not foretell an actual marriage, and it comes with the same meaning to people already married.
A bride holds the eyes of the whole room for a day, so in a dream the feeling of standing where everyone looks borrows her figure. Traditional dream lore treated a wedding as the largest knot a person ties, so any scene with a bride in it was read favourably. In practice, though, it reflects the work you are about to take on or the relationship you are about to begin far more often than an actual wedding.
Readings by Situation
Being the bride yourself
A sign that your heart has already leaned toward what you are about to take on. Tradition read marrying in a dream as a change of standing. If the feeling was more excitement than dread, it is fine to go ahead.
Seeing a bride laughing brightly
A good dream of a smooth beginning and a celebration close by. Watching someone else marry is read as good news circulating around you. Expect something worth congratulating.
A bride in tears
Not an ill omen but the tension that stands before a large change. Tradition also read tears at a wedding as washing away what is old. Ask yourself whether hope or fear was the stronger feeling.
Choosing or trying on a wedding dress
It means you are still choosing. You are weighing several paths at once, so rather than rushing, write the options down and compare them. If you found a dress you liked, the answer is already near.
If the same dream keeps returning, look at what you are being asked to decide rather than at a wedding. What you were wearing, and who stood beside you, says more than the ceremony did. Read it as borrowing the image of a wedding to picture the turning point you are standing at now.