White wedding
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This article is about the set of wedding traditions. For the Billy Idol song, see White Wedding (song).
A Bride in a White Wedding dress
A white wedding is a term for a traditional formal or semi-formal Western wedding. This term refers to the white color of the wedding dress, which became popular in the Victorian era and came to symbolize purity of heart and the innocence of childhood. Later attribution suggested that the color white symbolized virginity.