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A Jewish bride on her wedding day is considered an angel. Pure and free, dressed in white she has full access to ask for everything she will need for her future.

The custom of veiling the bride’s face before the chupa ceremony (badecken) is traditionally explained by the reference to Rivka in Genesis (Bereishis 24:65) “Rivka took her veil and covered herself” upon her first meeting Yitzchok. There was no Tznius Police telling Rivka to do that, and it certainly wasn’t her high school principal who guided her with the laws of modesty.

A woman is born with modest feelings and we need to preserve that. The wedding day is the holiest day of her life, why should abuse that purity by baring it all, in public too! So many people are changing their way of thinking; it is now becoming a trend. A Google search for modest wedding gown currently brings back 1/4 million results. That says something.

A trend that can be expensive. The more fabric, the more modest. The more modest, the more it costs. Take a look at the wedding gowns here on the Simchawear.com site, there’s one in every girl’s closet and she is begging to rent or sell it to you.

Links:

Jewish Wedding Customs and Their Origins

Festive Jewish Wedding Garb - A Glossary