Wedding Veils

I decided to make my own wedding veil for 2 reasons...1) It's very expensive 2) Kathy made hers for her wedding, and it came out really nice. I figured she could help me make mine. 3) At the very least, if it really came down to it, I could always buy one.

So we went to JoAnn's which is more of a sewing/craft store, and we can get 40% off coupons. That's where we bought our material. I had plans to make 2 veils. One long, up to my finger tips, and the other short and cute. The total price of tulle for these two veils came out to about $6. We did have to buy combs to attach that on, which came in a pack of 6, I think, for $2.00, and I wanted some "bling" so I got some Swarowski crystals for 40% off which came up to $10.

Kathy and her mom helped me pick out the materials, and we came back to the house to put it all together. We cut the tulle using a cardboard cutout and a formula that Kathy developed. It was a little tough to keep it aligned properly, but once it's all bunched up anyway, you wouldn't be able to tell anything was wrong with it. In the end, it actually came out pretty even and with some nice looking arches. We had a bit of sewing to do basically you do a certain stitch that will make the material bunch up, and then you attach it to the comb. When it was finally attached to the comb, it looked pretty darn good as is. Normally, you would decorate before you do this process, but I was just going to glue on crystals anyway, so it really didn't matter.



I took both veils home to Hawaii, and there I showed my sister and mom the two choices. They recommended that I use the long one, and I loved both the veils; so I didn't mind going with that choice. I spent maybe an hour gluing the crystals on the veil. I didn't really have a pattern in mind. I kind of just picked up the veil to see how it drops and added crystals where it could be most seen and nicely placed. It came out really well.

One of the crystal decorations:


I am really glad that we took on this project because it was a lot of fun (A little time consuming, but definitely worth it.) and I have something personal to wear. Thank you Kathy and Paul's Mom. It came out really lovely. Any one else need any veils made?

Here are a few photos: