6 Reasons Why Brides Wear Veils

Wearing of veil (s) as a matter of fact has come as a tradition. It’s pure traditional for the bride to wear her wedding veil over her face even without many knowing the significance of

wedding veil. Many coming up with different reasons but we are actually here today to clear the air.

So we shall be talking to you on the different views of people as well as the moral view which is the main criterion for a bride to wear wedding over her face on the wedding day. Though this topic is very sensitive, but we promise to do just to it.

Guess you would want to know why brides wear veils? Not to worry, make sure you read to the end as to know all you have to know about it. 

6 Reasons Why Brides Wear Veils Over Their Face On The Wedding Day 

A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance. Veiling has a long history in European, Asian, and African societies. The practice has been prominent in different forms in Judaism, Christianity, and of course Islam. The practice of veiling is especially associated with women and sacred objects, though in some cultures it is men rather than women who are expected to wear a veil. Sounds strange though but true.

In modern weddings, the lifting of the veil at the conclusion of the ceremony to present the bride to the groom may not occur, since it may be considered prejudice, for the bride to have her face covered through the ceremony, whether or not the veil is worn to symbolize virginity. Often the veil is worn solely as a fashion accessory as part of the bridal attire, instead of for its symbolism, which is not supposed to be so.

If you do choose to wear a wedding veil, it is traditional to wear a blusher (the top layer of a two-layered veil) over your face down the aisle. It can then be lifted by either your father (before he leaves your side) or groom, anyway.

The controversial reasons why brides wear massive sheets of chiffon on their head. We are, of course, talking about the veil. The dramatic, elegant, but probably very irritating in practice veil.

Why do we wear them? What do they mean? And when did they become a thing that all traditional brides would wear?

The truth is, no one’s entirely sure. Veils came into practice at different points in different cultures, and have seen dips and increases in their popularity. But here are the different beliefs, reasons and theories behind a bride’s NEED to wear a veil.

1. Brides Wear Veils To Ward Off Demons

Wedding veils started being a thing in Roman times, when brides were covered from head to toe in a massive red veil called ‘flammeum’.

Why? Because Romans were scared of evil spirits popping into the ceremony to curse the couple. They thought that making it look like the bride was on fire would scare them off. Makes sense anyways.

But then, this belief eventually progressed into using the veil to confuse spirits, which makes a bit more sense than the fire thing. The Romans figured that by covering up the bride’s face, the spirit wouldn’t be able to make their attack as they wouldn’t be sure who the bride actually was.

2. Brides Wear Veils To Hide Their Face

From the ashes of the spirit confusion theory rose a new preference for veils being used to hide the bride’s identity. But this time, she wasn’t protecting who she was from spirits–she was trying to keep her face a secret from her groom.

In early weddings when marriages were arranged entirely through fathers, with the bride given away in exchange for money and goods, fathers giving away their daughters wanted to hide their face until the last possible minute, so that a less attractive bride wouldn’t spoil the agreement. How sweet!

This eventually got transformed into the ‘cute’ tradition that decrees that men can’t see their bride before the wedding. Romantic, huh.

3. Brides Wore Veils So They Couldn’t Run Away

notes that veils and trains were used to weigh down the bride and prevent them from running away when they met their new husband for the first time. 

4. Brides Have Their Veils Lifted As A Sign Of Ownership

Think about it this way: whoever unwraps a present is the owner, right?

So through the ages, tradition has stated that the father of the bride must lower the veil on his daughter’s face, in order to ‘gift’ her to her new husband.

Once they’re about to get married, the husband can then lift the veil, symbolising his new ownership of his bride. That sounds more like it, ugh!

5. Brides Wear Veils To Show That Their Love Is More Than Skin-Deep

If you still want to wear a veil purely for the prettiness factor, don’t stress. There’s another, non-horrifying reason behind the tradition.

Now the other reason which is the main criterion,

6. Brides Wear Veils To Symbolise Their Virginity. And Their ‘Purity’. Agh.

It has all to do with being covered, and the veil being a thinly veiled (pun intended) reference to the hymen. Veil intact, virginity intact. So you can go right ahead and get wedded.

Let me shock you. The main purpose why brides wear veils over their face is to testify their sanctity but this day brides who have slept with a man or many men, brides who have aborted once or tons of times, brides who have slept with their grooms before the wedding day, end up mocking themselves by abusing the reason of wearing veil go ahead to wear veil over their face, which is very wrong and unfair. Perhaps the bride is not pregnant, that still doesn’t make her intact to qualify for wearing a veil, doing this is simply an act of blasphemy and it is hypocritical. Because people notify any bride wearing a veil as still untouched. This is because the last reason has been generally accepted as a criterion for a bride to wear a veil on the wedding day. 

May I remind you what wearing of veil is sacred and it signifies biblically, because I don’t think that the priests counsel the ‘to be’ bride and groom during the counselling session before the wedding day they wouldn’t have be mocking themselves before God thinking that nobody sees them but God does. When Moses came down Mount Sinai after having encounter with the Lord carrying the two stone tablets  inscribed with the terms of the covenant. He was aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the Lord, so when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance, they were afraid to come near him. 

It was the reflection of God’s glory. It was magnificent and the Israelites marvelled and shivered and stumbled at his sight, the glory. When Moses finished speaking with them, he  covered his with a veil so that the people could behold his presence without being scared of the radiance, the glory. What does this imply in this context? It simply implies that for a bride to wear a veil over her face, she must be sacred, pure and holy, intact, untainted and untouched and has had no carnal knowledge of the opposite (gender) before, a proof that the glory of God is still hovering all around her.

If you really don’t want to attract God’s wrath, the criterion for a bride to wear a veil is not farfetched, the bride must be a virgin before the day she walks down the aisle to tie the knot with the groom.

Come on, if unfortunately you weren’t a virgin perhaps you have been molested, abused or raped or you purposefully defiled your body all in the name of youthful exuberance and be deflowered, it’s no big deal, you are free to go with a veil tied on your hair and present yourself before your groom without covering over your face with the veil, sounds right, ugh.

I know you wouldn’t want to offend God, so this you must do to respect the purpose why veil is worn by the bride on the wedding day to reduce the high rate of wedding veil deception and abuse.

If you so much like wedding veil keep yourself pure, alright!

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