A white wedding is a traditional formal or semi-formal Western wedding. The term originates from the white color of the wedding dress, which first became popular with Victorian era elites, after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding.
However, the term now also encapsulates the entire Western wedding routine which generally includes a ceremony, where the marriage is initiated, followed by a reception.
The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Royal brides before Victoria did not typically wear white, instead choosing "heavy brocaded gowns embroidered with white and silver thread," with red being a particularly popular color in Western Europe more generally. American brides had been wearing a plethora of colors including brown and grey but rarely white. As accounts of Victoria's wedding spread across the Atlantic and throughout Europe elites followed her lead. Etiquette books then began to turn the practice into a tradition and the white gown soon became a popular symbol of status that also carried "a connotation of innocence and sexual purity." By the end of the 19th century the white dress was the garment of choice for elite brides on both sides of the Atlantic. However, middle class British and American brides did not adopt the trend fully until after World War II. In the twentieth century the tradition grew to include the practice of only wearing the dress once. As Historian Vicky Howard writes, "if a bride wore white in the nineteenth century, it was acceptable and likely that she wore her gown again ..."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_wedding
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