Bridal corsets 'used to be blue'
February 12, 2009 
A new study has revealed that white has not always been the traditional colour for a bride to wear on her wedding day and that women used to walk down the aisle wearing blue dresses and bridal corsets.
White weddings apparently only came into fashion when Queen Victoria insisted on wearing the colour as she tied the knot with Albert in 1840.
The research into 25,000 weddings over 350 years carried out by Ancestry.co.uk also found that guests used to tuck into a wedding cake that was made of meat.
The cake, known as a Bride's Pie, used to contain a glass ring and the spinster who found it was said to be the next woman to wed - a tradition that has now been translated into the tossing of the bouquet.
Ancestry.co.uk chief Olivier Van Calster said: "This study illustrates the change from an unregulated and chaotic marriage system to the ordered, controlled one we have today."
