****THIS IS A NO MR. SHORTCAKE ZONE ****
When I found my dress, my lovely and incomparable assistant Kelly at Stella’s Bridal Galleria gave me the matching veil to try on. It was, to the best of my knowledge/veil identification skills, a mantilla style, fingertip-length veil with scalloped edges and an intricate pattern of glass beads and Swarovski crystals.
I thought it looked quite lovely with the gown, but it lacked a matching blusher, and attaching a plain blusher looked, honestly, quite ridiculous. I’m dead set on having some sort of blusher/face shrouding apparatus, as I am completely and hopelessly in love with the idea of being “unveiled.”
(For example, check out kayrose’s blusher - pure romance. THIS is what bridal dreams are made of!)
But, the mantilla veil was sparkly, and as anyone close (or within a hundred feet of me) will attest, I have a not-so-secret obsession with things that bling. In addition, wearing a mantilla veil (traditionally Spanish) would be a sweet nod to my mother’s heritage.
However, such a nod would cost $560 dollars. OUCH. Luckily for me, the veil sold (to someone else) before I had a chance to make any foolhardy decisions based on emotion and not on account balances. I did a brief search on ‘da internetz’ and came up with a couple of alternatives for waist-length, sparkly, scalloped-edge veils:
Then I saw how breathtaking a drop veil could look and was smitten:
Knottie srpro
I searched again, and found a drop veil with Swavorski crystals:
Shop For Bridal
…and then I read this helpful thread on the boards. As some brilliant ladies suggested, you can have a mantilla veil and a blusher too! If you pull forward the front of the mantilla veil, and secure it so that it hangs over your face, it will look like a drop veil, and behave like a blusher.
Good idea? Grace Kelly thought so!
And so did Katharine McPhee from American Idol:
(pulled back for the big kiss)
What do you think?
Does anybody have any suggestions on where to find a non-lace, beaded, sparkly mantilla or drop veil in waist length or longer, for less than $200?
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NEED A REFRESHER COURSE IN VEIL 101? TRY:
The Veil Bio
The Flirty Bride
Wedding Channel
I Bought My Veil Too Early (caring for your veil by Mrs Lime)
Veils (Mrs. Ladybug)
If you have a vintage style dress, make sure to check out these:
Perfect Details
BonBon Oiseau
Leah C
Something Bold
Brides Head Revisited
I love your dress… I think I have the same dress.lol. Is it a Jasmine Couture?
try veilshop.com
i tried on your dress! well, at least i tried on one very similiar by Casablanca.
its gorgeous!
i 2nd Katie’s suggestion of veilshop.com
and thanks for those vintage pics….sigh….i love vintage. just started searching for a vintagey rhinestone choker myself. i figure now is a good time to look since so many places have a wide selection for prom.
Sigh.. that pic of srpro gets me every time. She’s my main reason that I got a drop veil (got mine from Occcansey Designs).
ah.. thank you for posting these veil tips. saves me the trouble in having to go back and comb through these helpful posts. i know it’s important but i’ve been putting it off. my excuse is that my dress isn’t done yet. hee.
[...] already decided that a drop-veil is the type of veil for me - despite, as Mr. Shortcake noted, its tendency to make brides look [...]
Miss Shortcake — any luck on the veil hunt? I am looking for the same as you, I just didn’t know the tech terms, thanks for this thread!
You can try veilshop.com - I’ve ordered a cathedral and a waist length veil (one for ceremony, one for reception) - you can have the option of adding sparkly embelishments! HTH!
Dear Miss Shortcake,
I bought a FANTABULOUS affordable veil on ebay!! check out my knot bio http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/user/page.aspx?username=angelicag93 also, check out weddingaccents.com I ordered a mantilla 2 tier fingertip veil and it came quite fast and was half the price the bridal shop qupted me!! I preferred the quality of Maria’s veils from ebay, I have the link on my bio. I also love your invites and put them in my bio for inspiration!
Mrs. Shortcake, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer
Engagement Date: August 7, 2007
Wedding Date: October 2008
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Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club
About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
*sigh* I wish I had gone with the drop veil, which was my first gut instinct. But nooo… I went with a 2 layer veil with a blusher. Much too *poofy* for my taste, but I just used it cuz I didn’t want to waste the $75 I spent on it =/