This article is about bridal crowns in Germany and Scandinavia. For crowns worn by both bride and groom in some Eastern Christian weddings, see Mystery of Crowning.
The Altenburger Hormt a 1624 bridal crown in the Museum of Thuringian Folk Art, ErfurtLindhorst bridal procession. The women are wearing Kranzmaikes, Lower SaxonyA Swedish bridal crown (coronet) from the 1930s in use through Täby Parish
Traditionally a bridal crown (German: Brautkrone or, in the Black Forest, Schäppel) is a headdress that, in Central and Northern Europe, single women wear on certain holidays, at festivals and, finally, at their wedding. Bridal crowns today, of another type, are also often provided by church parishes for the use of brides at their weddings.
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