And the bride wore...

Interesting fact I came across the other day is that the "tradition" that the bride wears white only goes back to Queen Victoria.  Prior to that, red was considered the appropriate colour for a bridal dress and white had connotations with death and mourning.  Victoria's choice of white was seen as pretty revolutionary at the time, but was quickly picked up by the society press of the day as symbolic of purity and innocence and soon became the fashion, and remains so to this day.