What to wear to a wedding, Victorian style? Fashion advice from the Victorians etiquette books

I'm answering YOUR fashion questions about what to wear to a wedding, wedding traditions, white gowns and wedding dress history-- with fashion advice from the Victorians etiquette books and fashion magazines. Visit birchliving.com/SnappyDragon and get 25% off your Birch mattress plus two free Eco-Rest pillows for a limited time during their 4th of July Sale. Wedding season brings fashion questions : is wearing a white dress to a wedding ever okay? Did Queen Victoria really popularize the white dress? Where did all of these wedding superstitions and traditions about fashion come from? Turns out, fashion advice from the Victorians is still very useful, especially when it comes to the origin of wedding traditions. Turns out, back in Victorian times, the bride wasn't the only one allowed to wear white-- and this is only one of the fun wedding facts I learned doing this dress history research. I got a ton of questions about what to wear to a wedding, and about wearing any amount of white in your dress. Unlike today, not only was wearing white to a wedding okay in Victorian times, it was encouraged if you were a bridesmaid or a newlywed! Victorian brides were expected to wear their wedding gown to all formal events for a year after getting married, including a formal wedding ceremony for someone else. It was the wedding flowers that were the most important indicator of who was the bride, rather than the veil or the white gown. And for much of Victorian history, white dresses we