The Badeken — The origins and meaning behind the Minhag

I don’t understand the Taamei Haminhogim so I will speculate. It says in Rus 3:9 ופרשת כנפך על אמתך and you should cover your maiden with a talis.
This is was a sign of marriage since married women covered their hair. In
Frankfurt, they cover the groom and bride together in a talis. There is a connection for this in the Torah where the making of ztitzis is followed by the pasuk of marriage.

“3. If the badeken is see-through, doesn’t that defeat the purpose? ”

How can you ask “doesnt that defeat the purpose” if you dont know the purpose?

There are many reasons as you point out. and it is hard to list “each of them.”

According to some the badeken is the chupa I though this was tur but I cant find it now. Tosfos Yoma 13b says Kalalh wearing veil is chupa, though Iremeber a shita that it is chasan spreading clothing on her. (the reason for the yekke minhag)
Other point to imahos either Rivka who covered herself wit hcloth or LEah who yaakov didnt recongnize so she must have been wearing a veil (I guess according to this last one a see through oen would defeat the purpose, though this is a strange purpose to copy to the tee)

I don’t think that the word ‘badeken’ comes from ‘bedecked’. I think it comes from ‘bodek’, like the groom is checking that the kallah is who he thinks she is.

The “ba” is not part of the root, but part of the Yiddish conjugation (I hope
that’s the word) of the verb. To “bashmutz” someone is to besmirch them;
to “badek” someone is to cover them.

Jdb and Jews used to wear white for shabbos and Yom tov. In fact, black is a bad color in kabbalah

Christians use a wedding canopy? Never knew. Not that I’ve ever been to a church wedding, but they have them in movies and tv shows.

And I’m positive that the white dress thing is from Queen Victoria; In ‘The Bostoner Rebbetzin Remembers’ Rebbetzin Horowitz wrote that white bridal gowns were considered un-Jewish in her day, so her wedding dress was a light pastel color. Fact check, anybody?