History and meaning of wedding veil

History and meaning of wedding veil
Harold Whetstone Johnston says in ‘The Private Life of the Romans’ that:”Over the tunic was worn the bridal veil, the flammeum (flame-colored veil), shown in Figure 27. So important was the veil of the bride that nubere (to veil oneself) is the word regularly used for the marriage of a woman.”
Japanese veil tradition is almost the opposite. Instead of a veil the bride wears a tsuno kakushi. Tsuno means ‘horns’ and the purpose of wearing this headdress was to veil her horns of jealousy, ego and selfishness – attributes that should not be displayed at a wedding in front of the groom and his family. It symbolized her resolve to become a gentle, obedient wife.
Also in those days, hair, before the advent of shampoo, was rather mucky and people wore a headdress to hide it. This pragmatic use of the veil leads us to the more likely reason they were originally worn.
For a wedding, the clothing(wedding dress) naturally became more special, with finer cloths and more embroidery. The bride’s wimple was also more refined than the normal daily garb. Indeed, during the 1600s, the bride wore a conical headdress from which trailed a full-length veil.

When we reach home, we are in a safe environment and remove the veil. Similarly when we we arrive in somebody’s house, we remove our protective attire, be it a veil, hat, coat, boots, since we want to show our politeness and acknowledge that our host’s house is better than the uncivilised outdoors. It is quite likely for this reason that shoes are removed when entering a mosque and men remove their hats when entering church, to show they respect the building as a residence: the house of God.