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Why by weddings does the Chasson wear a raincoat over his Kittel?
Is it because they don’t want to mess up the picture?
For the same reason that they wear a kittel, because that is their minhag.
If you have a question about your minhag, ask your father or someone who has told you what your minhagim are.
I too have seen this at Chasunas where the Chosson is from Hungarian stock. Very curious because no one provided me an answer when I asked around. What is more curious is that when a kever of someone from Moroccan stock is visited (after the week, shloshim, year), a relative of the deceased spreads a raincoat (though not exclusively black) over the grave.
Why by weddings does the Chasson wear a raincoat over his Kittel?
I don’t know. I didn’t wear a raincoat over my kittel.
The Wolf
A chosen wears a kittel because it is a yom kipper for the chosen and kallah however he puts a coat on top to hid the kittel from the public so as not to put the yom kipper on them it is a personal yom kipper (the daven mincha yom kipper)..
I was told by a litvak that the Hungarian minhag is because of outdoor chuppos. He wears a kittel because it’s a personal yom kippur for him. He wears the raincoat to keep the kittel dry.
Oh, also – why do some people put one arm out of the coat? I always wondered where that came from…
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