SYMBOLISM
White
It is the colour of stillness and therefore symbolizes spiritual transcendence. It
indicates great potentiality because white can be broken down to produce all
colours of the spectrum. It is also the colour of human sperm.
Red
Being the colour of female reproductive fluids and blood, red stands for fertility
and life. It also represents the dry earth that promises life after the rivers.
Yellow
The virgin bride-to-be wears yellow. Being the colour of the Sun – the source of
all life – it represents virility. By another understanding, having been derived
from antiseptic turmeric, yellow indicates destruction of all negative things.
Green
It is the colour of realized energy, representing the earth after the rains, when the seed bursts. At a wedding, typically, the bride’s mother would wear green.