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Your Veil

Your veil can enhance your look or draw attention away from it! Getting the right veil is important and below are some essential veil tips!

Try Try and Try Again!

Have fun trying on different veils with your dress. It’s essential to try the veil with your dress so that you know how it looks, however once you have chosen your veil length, feel free to visit different shops to buy the veil.

Pick the Position

Placing your veil higher up on your crown will make a wide face look longer.

Think about the hair style you’ve chosen, where could you wear your veil to flatter that hair style and show it off at it’s best? Consult with your hair stylist.

Any Bride Will Do

There are a lot of myths around veils, eg, only a blusher (or shoulder length) veil or birdcage (or fascinator) veil for civil ceremonies and only cathedral length veils for royalty, but you are the bride and if you want a twenty-five foot veil at your country church wedding then you have one!

Veils are the bride’s choice and which ever veil suits your wedding style and wedding dress is the one you should choose! You must feel comfortable in your veil.

Accessories

Think about which accessories will look best with your veil. A tiara looks great with a veil and can be easily attached to your veil with a few stitches or some tiny hooks.

On straight hair, a low sitting tiara looks best, but with very full curly hair, choose a tiara that sits a bit higher.

Handle With Care

Veils are delicate pieces of clothing. Try to remember not to catch it on doorways or any stylish topiary wedding decoration.

A few days before your wedding, hang your veil up to allow the creases to drop out of it. Do not iron your veil under any circumstances!

Choose the Right Hair Style

The comb of a veil will need to stick into your hair so up or half-up hair styles are the best for pinning a veil. However, your hair stylist will be able to work her magic if you would rather have a down hair style.

Remember to check out my Veils Explained post for more information about wedding veils, including their origins!

Updates

Hair and Makeup Booked!

Days to go: 11 months, 2 days

I have booked the hair and make up lady! That’s another thing I can tick off my list!

I thought it would be nice if all the ladies involved in the wedding could get ready together, and we could have a really girlie morning before the wedding. I’ve had mornings like this at my friends’ weddings and it was really nice.

The Plan Is…

I’m going to be having my hair and makeup done while my bridesmaids will be having their hair done. I didn’t want to tell my bridesmaids how to wear their hair, as some brides do, I wanted to give them the option of wearing their hair how they feel comfortable. As they will be wearing the same clothes it’ll be easy enough to see that they’re the bridesmaids without them having their hair all the same. 

I’m really looking forward to having my makeup and hair done for me, I’m looking forward to being pampered!

The Look I’m Going For

I was thinking of having a very natural look with a touch of sparkle and a hint of pink. That’s what I wear normally but with a professional putting the makeup on, it will look flawless.

What’s Left?

All that’s left to find are the bridesmaid dresses and the gifts for the bridal party and parents. Everything else is booked. I’m going to ring round different bridal shops looking for the dresses I want for the bridesmaids, or something similar.

This wedding is almost sorted!

Wedding Hair Styles

Finding the Style that’s Right for You

Sometimes all you need is to look at a picture of the hair styles that you like to show your stylist.

Up Do’s

picture from towedding.net	picture from weddingdresscolection	picture from wedding teen.com
picture from deleted blog	picture from wedding hairstyle gallery	picture from meisshin’s blog
picture from hairstyleschats.com	picture at arabic-mehndi-designs.com	picture from flikr

Down Do’s

picture from mardinifashion.com	picture from mardinifashion.com	picture from weddinghairgo.com
picture from project wedding.com	picture from project wedding.com	picture from project wedding.com
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I used google to find the hair styles featured here however I would complete recommend Project Wedding.com to check out the hair styles they have on there. I only picked out 6, but they have 17,000 and more on their website when I last looked. You are bound to find a style that suits you from all those!

Best of luck!