Hi All,

So sorry I have been MIA.  With two amazing back-to-back weddings this month, I focused all my energy on assiting my dear bride-friends.  I’m back to planning my own wedding, and although one more friend just got engaged this weekend, I believe mine is the only one between now and June 12.  Anyway,  I promised you the end results of the colored birdcage veils I made for my friend’s bachelorette party, so voila, here they are!

They were a HUGE hit.  We loved wearing them and received many compliments from both men and women throughout the night.  The best part about it is that we felt classy and cool and part of a group,  even though some of us didn’t know one another before the night.  The bride wore white, and the rest of us had either magenta or red.

What do you think?  Can I use this idea for my bridesmaids?  I was thinking of letting my maids wear any dress in one color of my choosing, and unifying them with small couture black birdcage veils.

Hoorah! I finally finished my birdcage veil. It’s small because I didn’t want anything over my whole head and I didn’t want it to come down too far over my face either. I spent a lot of time with pieces of the netting, pinning them to my head with bobbypins and asking Garrett what he thought to make sure he wouldn’t hate it (because I want the person I’m marrying to like the way I look, afterall).

I goofed when I ordered the netting off of ebay and got ivory instead of white (my dress is white) so I decided to add a white accent to it. Hence the white flower, which I made with the help of a tutorial featured on EAD. I bought some feathers from a hobby lobby for maybe $2? I have a lot of them left over. I used silky liner fabric for the flower because it was cheap and I liked the texture. That was $2 or so and I have a lot of it left over as well. The netting was about $15 for 3 yards. I only used about 20 or so inches, though I cut two other pieces first that were shorter and changed my mind. I bought some combs to attach it to, and ended up using one. I sewed the flower to it first, then the netting (the more difficult part) and then stuck the feathers in.

I secured it with gorilla glue (professional, I know) and the underneath looks like a crazy mess but it works and I really like it. I had to use a bobby pin to pin down the part closest to my ear so it wouldn’t stick up, but it’ll be simple the day of and I won’t be worried about placement because the rest of it is in place. I think it was a rewarding process, but I won’t be selling veils any time soon. I’d be willing to help people do theirs, but I’d want them to have a part in it.

So, what do you think?