There are a number of marital traditions, and one of them is that a bride will wear white as a symbol of her virginity.
Now, a groom has been blasted for telling his soon-to-be-wife that not to wear a white wedding dress because she's not "pure" after posting about the incident in Reddit's AITA forum.
"So me (32M) and my soon to be wife (23F) are planing [sic] to get married in a few months," he began.]
Watch as this groom fails to notice hitting his bride in the face with a champagne cork:"I come from a very religious house hold [sic] with strong Christian beliefs and one of the traditions in my family is if the woman getting married isn't still a virgin they shouldn't wear a white dress on their wedding day.
"My family knows my soon to be wife wasn't a virgin when I met her because my mom asked me when I started dating her if she was pure, and I was honest and told her she had boyfriends before she met me.
"My wife was really upset when I asked her if she could wear a coloured dress on our wedding day but she agreed, so we're looking at getting [a] glittery blue dress instead.
"Now she's saying she won't marry me because she's too humiliated by the whole situation, but I really don't see how it's a big deal. AITA?"
Since the post was made three days ago by a user writing under the alias SweetStickyThrowAway, it has been upvoted 10.7K times and received over 2.4K comments; the majority of which are slamming the original posted for making his wife adhere to the tradition.
One of the most popular responses read: "YTA. For a dude marrying a girl nearly a decade younger, you sure are worried about what mommy thinks."
A second added: "YTA I can't believe you're trying to publicly shame her on your wedding day. Are you a virgin? Should you wear something to identify your shame?! She should run!"
Meanwhile, a third Reddit user claimed that the wearing of a white wedding dress isn't even a Christian tradition.
They wrote: "This is not a Christian tradition, nor is it a modern tradition. There is no 'Christian color' for virginity in marriage or anything else. Biblically, unmarried/virgin women wore multi-colored robes (read the story of how Tamar ribbed hers to shreds after being raped)
"Until the early 20th century, blue was the 'traditional' color of purity, and weddings were generally held with people wearing whatever their best clothes were. White became en-vogue because of Queen Victoria's white gown.
"The idea of a 'white wedding' was/ is a marketing ploy to get people to buy a piece of clothing for one day.
"Now, white denotes 'wedding' or 'first marriage.'
"If you want to herald your fiance's sexual history, should we assume you're wearing a white tuxedo to prove your own 'purity'?"
What do you think? Is SweetStickyThrowAway the a**hole? Reddit certainly thinks so!
