Have you ever attended a wedding and asked yourself why the bride was in a white dress?
White has often been associated with purity and most people believe that is the reason why it is worn by brides during weddings.
Interestingly, before the 19th century, brides used to wear a variety of colours ranging from blue, green and even red in some instances.
Red was actually the most preferred colour as it signified fertility.
Everything changed in 1840 when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, donning a lace-trimmed white satin dress, a lace veil, and an orange blossom wreath instead of a crown.
At the time, red was still the colour of choice for most brides so the fact that a member of the Royal family wore white instead was, to put it bluntly, a pretty big deal.
Photos of this wedding were shared widely on fashion magazines which deemed white as "the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material," leading ladies from various parts of the world to adopt it as the ideal colour for weddings.
Later, many people assumed that white was intended to symbolise virginity, though this was not the original intention: it was colour blue that was connected to purity, piety, faithfulness, and the Virgin Mary.
