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traditions and every thing i was raised with says you have to be a virgin to wear a veil over your face but what if you messed around while you were engageed but not yet married and lost your virginity but decided to become a secondary virgin
could you still wear a veil over your face
Sure, why not? I really don't think your private life is anyone's business, and I can't imagine anyone would question your wedding day fashion choices.
thats a thing of the past in my opinion. I think i might wear the veil over my face because i would love that moment where its lifted off by my father. And trust me...i am NO virgin.
Its your choice and everyone else can stuff it.
Well not sure what belief system your in but your sins have been wiped clean and you have been made a new, even if you " rededicated" yourself. Wear your veil with pride!
These days the veil is more of a fashion accessory than a statement of purity or virginity. Anyone can wear a veil
To be honest, this post really surprised me. I don't think many people continue to think of the veil as representing virginity these days - all of my friends have worn a veil over their face when they were married (4 of them now) and NONE of them were virgins. I am also planning to wear a blusher and I am not a virgin either. I would be surprised if many of your guests associated your veil with your virginity so if you want to wear a blusher veil, then you should definitely do it!
FI and I have been together for 6.5 years and living together for 2.5...that ship has LONG since sailed and I will be wearing a veil over my face:) The state of my vagina is nobody else's business.
I think that'd be something to talk to your religious leader about, or, if you haven't disclosed this information, see if you can find guidance in a book/website specific to your denomination. I find it a bit odd to ask a bunch of random strangers with, most likely, very different religious beliefs from your own (or no religious beliefs at all) what is/isn't appropriate with regard to a religious question like this.
All my friends have been nailed several hundred times over, and they all wore veils over their faces.
@MissCarnival LOVE this!
@mrssrm Weddingbee is somewhere you can ask whatever you want and get all different opinions. If you don't have anything to say please don't leave negative comments. OP thought she could get all different opinions, she wasn't asking if this was the place to get them.
OP- I say wear it!!!!
i am pretty sure that is a thing of the past.
my husband and i slept together before our wedding day, and i still wore a veil over my face. it made me feel very bridal, and it made my husband cry.
@mrssrm: The whole purpose of WeddingBee is to get opinions from a bunch of random strangers that are all in the same boat as you. If she wanted religious advice, she can post to the boards dedicated to her particular faith.
The last thing we should do here is discourage anyone from posting a harmless question...that's what we're here for :)
@CelebrinFire: The blusher is the part of the veil that covers your face in the front. You can wear your veil at the back of your head without covering your face, or you can have that second layer pulled forward in the traditional fashion that covers you up 
@lindsey_k_16: Sorry, I wasn't trying to be negative, I was trying to be helpful. Yes, I definitely appreciate that Weddingbee is a place for getting a variety of different opinions, and that's a great virtue of the site. But clearly the OP is coming from a very different religious upbringing than many of the people who are offering her advice. She also clearly considers those traditions and teachings meaningful and is trying to determine a solution to a religious problem that's troubling her. I'm just not sure that seeking religious answers from people who don't necessarily share her beliefs/religious commitments/traditions is a wise move. For most of us, religious or not, a veil bears no relation to our virginity/lack thereof. For the OP, there apparently is a meaningful relationship between the two. So I don't really see how our answers can help her make an informed decision that she'll be comfortable with, any more than, if I were a devout Catholic, taking a random survey on a point of doctrine would reassure me that my beliefs were orthodox. I mean, we can all tell the OP that we would wear a veil regardless of whether we were virgins, 'secondary virgins', or non-virgins, but presumably she already knows that lots of brides aren't virgins and wear veils. I don't think that reiterating that point really answers her question in a meaningful way, because it doesn't take her basic premise (that veil-wearing is related to virginity) seriously.
What is a secondary virgin? You're either a virgin or you're not.
Girl, rock that veil if you want to! Your state of virginity is nobody's business but your own, and there is NO reason that should have anything to do with your wedding clothes. Wear whatever color you want, whatever kind of dress you want, whatever accessories you want, etc. It's your wedding, so do what makes YOU happy :)
@Future MrsB: I'd have to agree.
You can wear a veil over your face whether you have never touched a man or if you could give Samantha (SATC) a run for her money sexually.
Sorry if I offended anyone, and OP, I'm especially sorry if I came across as negative. It really sounds to me like you're seeking some kind of religious truth and I wouldn't want you to discover after the fact that, according to your belief system/religious denomination you'd done something 'wrong' unless you were personally comfortable with that.
@SpecialSundae: *snerk* Your comment made me giggle.
/sidebar: Thanks for the recommendation on the Scotch/Whiskey thing. I couldn't get the sampler pack in time for Xmas, but I showed it to FI and he's going to join up next month :)
I plan on wearing a veil over my face and no I am not a virgin. Do I care if anyone has anything to say about it, no. I can't wait for that special moment when my Dad lifts my veil off of my face.
@mrssrm: I agree, I feel as though her traditions, which may be very near and dear to her lifes practices, are tied in with a certian religous belief. While we may say, that ideal is dead or it doesn't matter- could very much matter in her situation.
Hopefully the OP can give us some insight, so we can better give advice or move it to a particular board!
@CelebrinFire: If this is a concern about violating some religious teaching, I would discuss it with a church leader. I can't begin to guess your comfort level with going against the teachings of your faith.
I can assure you however, that there are many, many, (if not most) brides who wear a veil who are not virgins- actual or secondary.
@Eva Peron: Thanks for the support, it's nice to know I'm not totally alone in seeing things this way!
I think we can all agree it depends what angle she's coming from. If she wants our personal opinions, this is the correct forum. If she wants religious guidance, this is the wrong forum. I can only assume she wants to hear what other brides' opinions are.
I've never heard of the wearing of a veil being associated with one's sexual purity or status as a virgin. I'm sure your guest won't associate it as such.
The only tradition I've ever heard of that ties virginity to your wedding day is the color of the dress. White = virgin. But even that seems to be an 'old school rule'. Do what makes you comfortable. But if everyone at your church (or present on your wedding day) will be judging you based on if you have one over your face or not, I'd wear it. The last thing I'd want people thinking about as I walked down the aisle is, "is she a virgin?!"
@mrssrm: I agree with you
On a side note...aren't you only supposed to wear white if you are a virgin as well? Just sayin. There wouldn't be a lot of white dresses rockin the Bee boards if people still believed that. I know mine wouldn't have been white. And how do you become a secondary virgin? I could use a little purity.
Personally, I think you should wear whatever you want to.
Even among my most religious friends, the whole veil covering face thing is not relevant when it comes to sexual history, so I wouldn't worry about that at all. It's a fashion accessory.
I also don't quite get what "secondary virgin" means, but, to each their own!
@vmec: Bahaha! Ditto.
What the heck is a "secondary virgin"? You're either a virgin or you're not.
But yes, go ahead and wear a veil by all means!
@Juliepants: secondary virgin is like reclaimed virginity. Like saying, after you've had sex, "I won't have sex again until I'm married".
I'm in a lesbian relationship and I've slept with more people than I care to admit.... But I am still probably going to wear a blusher over my face too.
You don't have to follow the "wedding rules" if you don't want to. No one will say anything to your face, promise.
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