Weddingbee Blog

When I selected my wedding gown, I fell in love with its simplicity. Sure, it has a super-awesome 3-tier full skirt that makes me want to twirl around in a circle like I’m 8 years old again, but the bodice of my gown is without any sort of ornamentation. No bling. No jewels. No lace. Just perfect, in my opinion.

So, the other day when I was trying it on (making sure it still fit after all of the holiday goodies I indulged in — and, miracle of miracles, it does!), I thought about how it would look with my W-day jewelry. And with my hair and makeup done. The “whole package”, if you will. And then I remembered how I had purchased a wonderful hair fascinator from Kasia Fink Veils. It looks like this:

I started tossing around the idea lately of dressing up my gown a bit with the fascinator…not by wearing it in my hair, but wearing it on my gown!

Inspired by Mrs. Cowboy Boot, I’m considering adding the fascinator to the waist of my gown. (You can see Mrs. Cowboy Boot’s beautiful sash in action here.) I’d most likely remove the alligator clip on the back and find some high-quality ribbon to attach it to.

To give you an idea of how it looks on my actual gown, I took a few pics. Please forgive the shoddy camera skillz; I’m not good at one-armed self portraits (and I’m not about to ask Mr. FF to assist me!). Also, please forgive the wrinkles in my gown…it spends a lot of time in its garment bag inside of a large cardboard box in our spare bedroom.

Here’s Option A – my gown, sans-flower:

Annnnnd, with the flower clipped to my waist (remember, it’d be attached to ribbon of some type on W-day).

This is Option B for our at-home players.

Let’s put it up for a vote, shall we?