And for the record here are her white wedding bonnet and veil as well as a replica of her wedding dress.
Of the third--the wedding-dress--I wholly decline the responsibility It must be charged upon a sort of friendly compulsion or over-persuasion. Nothing would satisfy some of my friends but white which I told you I would not wear. Accordingly they dressed me in white by way of trial--vowed away their consciences that nothing had ever suited me so well--and white I had to buy and did buy to my own amazement--but I took care to get it in cheap material--there were some insinuations about silk, tulle and I don't know what--but I stuck convulsively to muslin--plain book muslin with a tuck or two. Also the white veil--I took care should be a matter of 5s being simply of tulle with little tucks. If I must make a fool of myself--it shall be on an economical plan.
~ Charlotte Brontë to Elizabeth Gaskell (?), early June 1854
What the journalist may be mistaking for her wedding dress is her going-away dress, which wasn't 'almost mauve' but which does now look dark mauve and is thought to have been lavender when new, not pink.
I really wish they would display the bonnet higher so we can see how the veil pieces hung down . It's not what we would recognizes as a veil as it does not go over the brides face ...however I have to say it's a very lovely bonnet and I'm glad Charlotte allowed herself such a pretty one for her day
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