What color dress should a new bride wear when she was married before?

She can wear whatever color she wants. There is no 'proper protocol'. Brides could always wear white no matter how many times they were married. White dresses are NOT A SYMBOL OF VIRGINITY and never were. It was a style made popular by Queen Victoria.

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If you are lucky enough to find love again, then wear whatever you like! Proper etiquette calls for first time brides to be in the whitest color possible. Second time brides are encouraged to wear what they are comfortable in. Anywhere from an Ivory (which is close to white with a yellowish tint) to dark red. The second ceremony is usually smaller and less formal than a first wedding, so the "rules" being bent is more acceptable.

I don't think there was ever a protocol for divorced brides. These traditions don't mean much anymore. I mean honestly, how many first time brides are really virgins. The 2nd time bride can wear whatever color she wants, even white again. White's not associated with virginity any more.

For sure!, I've been married twice, going on third soon lol and I'm wearing white. I questioned the etiquette also, and every bridal store I went to said the white rule is so outdated. Besides, the bride hasn't been married before. And whoever said someone that age shouldn't have a wedding is a complete jerk. After 65 years you finally find the person you want to spend your life with? Now that calls for the biggest wedding celebration ever!!! Congrats!.

As you say the premise behind the pure white dress was as a symbol of virginity, and how many brides today are virgins? There is a loose etiquette that second time brides, or women who had unquestionable loss of their virginity would wear pale blue, however this doesn't really apply and cream and pale pink are often popular choices although this really is the time to make your own rules - you'll look beautiful in whatever you wear.

The one thing that strikes me about your question is that you ask what a 'new bride' should wear when she has already been married - how is she then a 'new bride'?

I would say that a second-time bride should not wear white, but can if she wants. I would say any pale colour, nothing too bold, and she doesn't have to wear a dress either - a pant suit could be more her thing, depending on her age. My grandfather remarried much later in life (after his wife, my grandmother had died) and his new wife wore a pale blue pant suit.

I like the idea of a pale color that's good for your coloring, like pale peach, pale blue, pale green or any other color that's works with your hair and eyes. Silver is nice as well, but gold usually ends up looking too 'costumy.'

You rock for not wanting to wear white. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it's a little ridiculous to wear white for a second (or anything thereafter) wedding. The pale colors are much more classy.

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A second time bride gets to choose whatever color she wants to wear for her wedding dress. It’s her party and she (plus her fiancé) is paying.

Its 2011, she can wear whatever she wants. Valerie Bertinelli wore blue just this last week when she got married.