How long is a bride called a bride. Is it only for the wedding day or is it only until they say I do.?

I have been to a few weddings of late, and have posed myself the question, how long is a bride a bride. Is it the whole wedding day. Is it from when they say I do until midnight. Is it only through the ceremony. Once they say I do they then become husband and wife. The term bride must start and end somewhere otherwise my mum and dad would still be bride and groom. Same question goes for groom as well.

I have only an opinion, not an exact answer. It's this: a bride is a "bride to be" up until the actual wedding day. Then throughout the wedding day, she is the bride. After the wedding day, she is his wife. However...I know of many older generations (seniors and such) that still lovingly call their wives their "bride". I think it's so cute and sweet when I hear old men call their wife of 40-plus years his bride.

She is no longer a bride when the wedding day ends.....she is a newly wed. She gts to be a bride for one day...her wedding day. She is a bride to be until the wedding day, then she is a bride...... good luck.

A Bride is a bride for all of her wedding day. First she is a daughter, a girlfriend, a fiancee, a bride, a wife, a mother, a mother in law, and then a grandma! Eight stages of a woman!

Okay!!! I am getting married Saturday Nov 29,2008 and i have be told that i will longer be the bride Sunday morning i will be a wife..you are the bride until the wedding and then thru the wedding

They're the bride and groom until the wedding/reception are over. Custom may even call them that until up to their first anniversary.

I have always thought it was bride to be up till the wedding day and then she becomes bride and then once she is married she is a wife

She is the "bride" for the whole wedding day - from the moment she wakes up to when she goes to bed.

I think it would be until the honeymoon is over. I know a man who been married for yeeeaars lol and he still calls his wife bride. it most likely depends on the couple.

once the honeymoon is over. then you get to be newlyweds for a year and then you are a regular old husband and wife!

i would say till they dont wanna be called a bride/groom anymore, till they say i do...

when the wedding day finishes she stops being a bride otherwise like you say every wife would still be a bride lol!

from they day they get engaged until the hunny moon is over

I would say until she takes the dress off

I know lots of old people who still call their wives "their bride"