The wedding veil once represented the wife being submissive to the husband and came from an earlier tradition of the bride standing under a canopy that signified the protection of her groom.
These days, the veil is usually white, but in ancient Greece, yellow was a common color and it was read in ancient Rome.
The lifting of the veil by the groom was once a symbol of male dominance, but now the bride often lifts he own veil or has her father help.
