Why Brides wear white, used to be RED!

[seeder]

Wedding dresses are white. That’s just how things are.

Doesn’t matter if you literally never wear white in your normal, everyday life. Doesn’t matter if you know, deep in your heart, that you are embarrassingly clumsy and WILL drop something on all that pristine white satin.

Wedding dresses are white, and only ‘unconventional’ brides wear another colour.

Which is a silly social convention to uphold so strictly, really. Because wedding dresses being white is actually a fairly recent fashion choice.

See, just over 176 years ago red was the most popular colour for wedding gowns – probably because of all its ‘roses are red’ romantic connotations.

White dresses were worn occasionally, but its associations with mourning prevented it from being the preferred wedding option.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/26/why-do-brides-wear-white-on-their-wedding-day-5776679/#ixzz442cHBtXe

[seeder]

Marriage is about the love and the vows IMO.... dress colour? Who cares unless you observe tradition...

[SHaYap]

Depends on the establishment they wanna get married in ... I don't think a Pink polka dot bikini with a veil will go down too well in a Temple, Mosque or a Church

[danielost]

white stands for purity. only virgins are suppose to wear white everyone else can wear any other color. but, no one is going to call a bride a lier on her wedding day.

[Darkenpath25]

I know white is for purity but who is pure these days ? Ive never read where anywhere that a wedding dress use to be red , I think Jewish wear black

Edited March 26, 2016 by Darkenpath25

[SHaYap]

white was also a status of wealth and social standing ... back in the days of course ~ in fact just 50 years ago white garments were somewhat rare and highly prized ~

[Crabby Kitten]

Depends on the establishment they wanna get married in ... I don't think a Pink polka dot bikini with a veil will go down too well in a Temple, Mosque or a Church

Some brides choose to wear what they want and many opt to marry elsewhere instead of stuffy women hating temples..

[SHaYap]

Some brides choose to wear what they want and many opt to marry elsewhere instead of stuffy women hating temples..

ahhh the key here being 'elsewhere' ... just as it was quite fashionable at one time or another to marry in the nude ... as long as it was 'elsewhere' ~

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[stevewinn]

This was on a recent episode of QI.

The majority of wedding dresses weren’t white until after WWII (white was the most popular colour, with blue second most popular, but it didn’t account for 50%).

Queen Victoria popularised the white dress by wearing one 100 years earlier when she married Albert. However, it wasn’t feasible for the vast majority of women to imitate her because white materials were expensive and easily stained.

During World War II wedding dresses were commonly made from parachute silk, which soldiers brought back home with them as a memento. It was seen as fashionable and patriotic wedding attire for many years after the war.

Until the 1920s, every woman intended to wear her wedding dress again after her wedding, and most wouldn’t even buy a new dress for a wedding – they’d simply wear one they already owned. A white, lacy meringue simply wasn’t practical for repeat use.

http://qi.com/infocloud/weddings

[rashore]

There has also been time and places where simply wearing your Sunday best or was the right attire to get married in. Or your "not funeral" party best if that was something different than your Sunday church best.

[SHaYap]

... something 'borrowed' ... something new ~