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Queen Victoria in her wedding dress by Winterhalter, 1842. The first answer is more or less accurate, but glosses over centuries of white wedding dresses worn before Queen Victoriaâs wedding, and decades of coloured wedding dresses after her wedding, and also doesnât explain why Victoria wore a white wedding dress.
With increased prosperity in the 20th century, the tradition also grew to include the practice of wearing the dress only once. As historian Vicky Howard writes, [i]f a bride wore white in the nineteenth century, it was acceptable and likely that she wore her gown again.