What happens if you marry in purple, that's what *I* want to know...

So I'm researching my Irish heritage (for my world music class) and found some very interesting wedding traditions.  Such as, do you know that the saying "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," came from Irish tradition, and originally ended with "An old Irish penny in her shoe?"

Blue was probably a reference to the line of this little rhyme regarding the color of the bride's dress and what it signified:

Marry in white everything’s right

Marry in blue lover be true

Marry in pink spirit’s will sink

Marry in gray live far away

Marry in brown live out of town

Marry in green ashamed to be seen

Marry in yellow ashamed of your fellow

Marry in black wish you were back

Marry in red wish you were dead

Marry in tan he’ll be a loved man

Marry in pearl you’ll live in a whirl

What I want to know is- what about purple? That's my favorite color...I know purple and orange don't rhyme with anything and most people couldn't afford purple back then, but you'd still think they'd add a line about "Marry in lavender be a traveller" or something of the like... or maybe they had enough of that with grey and brown... still.  I'm also looking at getting a tin whistle...can't be too hard to play.  I already play recorder.

Anyway, I can't think of anything else to say at the moment, so I must bid thee adieu!

-Haili (and that was a random bit o' french for you from an Irish girl...tehe)