| VEIL | Type of mantilla of net, tulle or white lace traditionally forming part of a bride's ensemble (4) |
| ANNE | Queen and last Stuart monarch, whose blood from a purported pinprick stained her white lace, thus representing the red heart or centre of the wild white lacy cow-parsley that bears her name today (4) |
| CAPE | Containing a word for a primate, such as a gorilla, a noun for a cloak, domino, poncho or mantilla (4) |
| WIFE | Future role of a bride (4) |
| CANS | They're sometimes tied to the back of a bride and groom's car |
| HURDLE | Portable wattle fence traditionally forming part of a sheep pen; or; a jump in National Hunt racing (6) |
| LACY | Like a mantilla |
| HOPE | Virtue of desire and expectation metaphorically in a bride's chest, paired with faith and charity or remaining in Pandora's Grecian jar (4) |
| COAT | Mantilla |
| LACE | Mantilla material |
| MINCEPIES | Once banned in England according to legend, sweetened and spiced pastries traditionally forming part of the Christmas feast (5,4) |
| BORDER | Herbaceous -; collection of perennials traditionally forming part of an English country garden (6) |
| THIMBLES | Finger protectors traditionally forming part of a sewing kit (8) |
| ACORN | Traditionally forming the mast or pannage of swine, a wild nut from which a small Quercus or a proverbial modest idea, project, thing etc may grow to mighty proportions (5) |
| TRAIN | Part of a bride's outfit |
| THEME | Parts of a bride's attire, for this puzzle |
| MISTLETOE | A stormcock-propagated Malus canopy-hosted plant whose evergreen leaves and white berries are symbolic of fertility, hence traditionally forming lovers' Christmas kissing boughs with bay, holly, ivy, |
| CASCADE | Series of small waterfalls or a tumbling mass of something resembling this such as aubretia, lace, silk or flowers in a bride's bouquet (7) |
| DELPHINIUM | Derived from the Latin meaning dolphin, a flower commonly called larkspur traditionally forming a herbaceous border with plants such as lupins, hollyhocks and foxgloves (10) |
| STABLES | Traditionally forming a mews, buildings for equine animals, often with doors in two parts (7) |
