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Superstition #338

To be married in anything but white garments indicates bad luck for the bride, white being emblematical of innocence.

They say that white is a heavenly hue.

Another has added,

It may be so, but the sky is blue.

Massachusetts.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 338.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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