Wedding Blog

I suppose I’ve kept y’all in suspense long enough. I continued to debate on the veil issue. I ordered swatches from several companies, looked at the tulle at my local fabric store, scoured the internet for veil tutorials, and was ridiculously frustrated with the whole thing. One night, I looked over at Mr. CC and asked his opinion. It was something like, “I don’t care, but I want to be able to flip it back.” Ok… so, that kinda meant having a blusher. Back to the drawing board.

All of this happened before Weddingbee. Y’all will remember this post about HoneyComb Veils. I fell in love with her work, and we worked together on a custom design to match my dress. I sent her pictures of my hair inspirations and my dress. She sent me some sketches to choose from and then tulle samples and bead samples. We discussed the things that were important to me, and she proceeded.

A few days ago, I received these pictures in my email.

I was ecstatic! It was gorgeous! Not at all what I had in mind when I started looking at veils, but perfect! The tulle is champagne. There are 12 clusters of beads and sequins around the cut edge. The comb is beaded. It’s long, and fingertip length on the short side.

And today, this arrived.

(it was in a really ugly priority mail box)

I was really impressed by the care that was put into the packaging.

Inside was my veil.

I’m not going to show it to you yet, for two reasons. Number one, I got it after I had been working out and I was superbly gross. And number 2, I am terrible at taking pictures of myself, and I don’t want Mr. CC to see it yet.

So, it’s not a flower, and it’s not a birdcage. I know it will drive me crazy during the reception, so I’m working on an alternate plan for that as well. I promise I’ll let you in on it soon!

Are you considering a custom veil? What details do you want added to your veil to make it your own?