Man With Veil 👰‍♂️

This emoji depicts a man wearing a flowing veil, typically white or cream-colored and draped elegantly. It's a direct challenge to traditional gendered dress codes, showing formal wear divorced from binary expectations.

People use it to celebrate grooms choosing to wear veils, non-traditional weddings, or to honor cultural practices where men do wear veils. It's become important for LGBTQ+ couples announcing engagements or weddings, and for couples embracing non-conventional aesthetics. You might see it in posts celebrating personal choice, fashion-forward weddings, or cultural traditions that don't fit Western norms.

It's also used more broadly as a symbol of inclusivity and breaking gender stereotypes in formal wear. Some deploy it humorously when joking about fashion risks or trying something unexpected.

Added as part of Unicode Emoji 13 in 2020, this variant arrived alongside woman in tuxedo, reflecting a deliberate effort to decouple specific garments from gender. It sits comfortably in modern, progressive wedding conversations and continues gaining visibility as attitudes toward formal wear evolve.