I never wanted to wear a veil, I am not big on the symbolism or the look of most veils, and it isn’t something I even considered until trying a few on at the wedding shop and feeling like “such a beautiful bride” or something. But we didn’t have an extra $200 for a veil, I wasn’t crazy about any in the shop, I was already planning on wearing a flower crown, so I just let the idea go. Until I stumbled across a photo of a bride wearing this kind of epic veil.
Despite my sewing machine still being unopened in the box (for three years) I was all like “I can do this!” So my mom and I headed to a craft store in search of a gigantic piece of fabric to make this happen…
And this is what we left with. I think it was 50% off so the total was maybe $14. I emailed my seamstress friend asking if she would be able to help me with it, just trimming the sides a bit to make it “fit” better but the wedding was only a few weeks away at this point, and I sort of forgot about it. Then when I did remember again, I really didn’t have time for another thing, so the fabric just stayed in the bag for about a month, untouched.
A few days before the wedding I pulled it out, threw it over my head again and decided to bring it for pictures (which is all I ever really wanted to use it for anyway) and just see how it worked out…
It ended up looking exactly how I wanted. And I can hardly even consider it a real project because I put zero effort in to it, aside from coming up with the idea in the first place and picking out the fabric.
