The Fairytale Origins of the White Wedding Dress

An arranged marriage that became a lifelong romance and a tradition that has endured for almost 200 years.

Amy Colleen
The Victorian Lady’s Column
5 min readApr 11, 2021

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“The Marriage of Queen Victoria” by Sir George Hayter. Public domain image via Royal Collection Trust.

It was 1839, and wedding bells were in the air — but the groom had yet to be chosen.

Queen Victoria, newly coronated monarch of the British Empire, was expected by her court, her…

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Amy Colleen
The Victorian Lady’s Column

I read a lot of books & sometimes I’m funny. I aspire to be a novelist, practice at humor & human interest writing, and am very fond of the Oxford comma.