The Royal Wedding - Dress & Veil - Hypocrisy

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But she was married previously so her ability to marry again must be questionable and she is certainly not pure unless her previous wedding was not consummated.
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Purity isn’t a synonym for virginity.

Baptism removes all sins, original sin and personal sin, mortal and venial. It also removes any temporal punishment of sin, so a baptized person has a fresh clean soul.

If there was “impurity” due to sin at her first marriage attempt, it was washed away at her baptism.
 
SusanneT said:
I mean it is all designed to symbolise the purity of the bride, her modesty and her submission to Christ - but she is divorced
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Nowadays that doesn’t necessarily apply. It means whatever the bride wants it to mean. It really isn’t the business of onlookers. Either they like the dress and veil or they don’t. When one gets married, the state of their heart and soul is more important than the state of their body. At least that is what I believe. And I believe that is the way it should be.
 
It also bothers me when people who live together wear white. And they being Catholic.
 
As someone else said, the white dress thing was a Victorian invention. So the color of the dress means nothing. It’s the bride’s choice.
 
I agree with you Susanne. I can’t speak for her, but i believe the white dress was always a sign of virginity, before becoming a wife.
 
But neither Harry nor Meghan is Catholic.
It really isn’t none of your business.
 
SusanneT said:
am I the only one who felt a little uncomfortable at a divorced woman wearing a white dress and a very demure veil ? It looked wonderful but it’s that rather hypocritical in terms of symbolism !
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Probably not.

However do you feel the same way when a sinner wears a white garment for baptism, or if a woman not in the state of grace enters a chapel to pray for forgiveness before confession wearing a veil?
 
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margaret42 said:
I agree with you Susanne. I can’t speak for her, but i believe the white dress was always a sign of virginity, before becoming a wife.
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I understand. But I always thought that was kind of gross. You know, that people at the wedding were thinking that intently about whether or not the bride had sex. A real invasion of personal privacy even if it is only in thought space.
 
Historically brides here wore a silver crown to their wedding. And since they were valuable, you borrowed the parish bridal crown. Tradition held that if an unvirtous bride wore it the silver would tarnish.
Well, everyone know silver will tarnish on its own, so there was plenty of opportunity for sideeyes and gossip along the lines of ”is she REALLY…??? Know what I mean. Nudge, nudge”

It’s just wiser and more merciful to let sleeping dogs lie. And to wish people a happy marriage.
 
I know what tradition says about the meaning of a bride wearing white/a veil and how for most now, wearing white is simply a tradition that has no implication as to the bride’s past/virginity.

Despite being pretty traditional and conservative myself, I prefer that the white dress just symbolizes being the bride. It’s rather unseemly, to me, that the bride would have to wear white (or not) to announce her sexual status to the congregation. Especially since there is no such “rule” or tradition for the groom.
 
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I wonder how the priest must feel after talking to the couple he marries? They might have told him they are “living together”. Then got his advice about it. And the bride walks up in a white dress?
 
It’s CoE, not the Catholic church. Cohabitation isn’t that much of an issue.
 
Luckily, the white dress has zero to do with virginity. It was a Victorian innovation for weddings, nothing more.
 
I also like to see weddings just because it’s a wedding, and the bride walking up the aisle, etc. But i was raised, as maybe you were to believe in the bride being a virgin. and the white dress represents her virginity. Is that how you feel?
 
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