Vintage wedding veils for your Vintage wedding gowns

Are you getting married soon & desire a Vintage style Wedding Veil?

A vintage veil, as well as giving you that something old, is a lovely choice and brings history and classic beauty to your special day.

The use of veils for weddings spans centuries and is primarily based on religious connotations. In other parts of the world, using a veil sometimes means different things, but we are discussing wedding veils, vintage style.

Vintage wedding veils are a beautiful bridal accessory that gives a degree of mystery and an implication of intense beauty of a bride.

There is a huge vintage scene in the US today, and making vintage veils has now almost become a specialist area. Intending brides are sometimes ready to venture across the oceans online, and pay for the extra postage they may incur.

Because wedding day fashion seems to be leaning towards the classic at the moment, vintage veils should be simple and elegant, with just a little dash of drama.

Personally, I feel drama is all about the length of your veil, and the aspect of going really traditional and exclusive. Examples of long and dramatic veils are those of the Seventies hippy vibes, with lovely cotton-lace skullcaps and sweeping floor-length trails.

Most vintage wedding veils are white, pearl or off white, but coloured varieties are a good option if you want a bridal attire with colour. And on the other hand, you may get a professional to dye a white favourite to a desired colour.

There is a huge variety of vintage Wedding veils in the market, especially online where you have a whole wide range to choose from.

Vintage Style Bridal Veils

A few of the popular varieties of vintage wedding veils are:

The Cathedral veils

The vintage Cathedral veil drapes naturally to the ground and the popular fabric to use today is the premium quality tulle (not the ones used in discount veils). It is also called the 'shimmer veil' and is available in single layer or double layers.

It has a subtle effect in the dim light of some churches or chapels, but comes to life as you walk out into the sunlight, or under the flash of a camera.

This vintage style veil can be worn at the top of the head, or behind the head. You can add a tiara for an elegant and stylish effect.

The Elbow Length veils

This style veil connects from a headpiece and extends down to the elbows.

More common for casual weddings, the elbow veil gives the graceful look of a veil, without an overpowering effect on the bride or the wedding dress.

Cloche or Cap veils

These were the rave of the 1920's and they fitted over the entire scalp, falling down gracefully over the shoulders.

These cap veils were usually made from net-backed fabrics, using the finest lace and silk tulle fabrics. Trimmings and decorations included satin, velvet ribbons, with blossoms at the ears.

Gothic wedding veils (vampire veil)

This is an exotic medieval bridal veil made out of plain or patterned tulle fabric. These are quite common and seen mostly around Halloween.

Birdcage Vintage bridal veils

These style of wedding veils simply hint at what lies beneath. Having a veil custom-made using vintage materials is a great way of getting exactly what you want in the event that you don’t find what you really want. Birdcage veils are quite simple to make yourself.

Finding an authentic vintage wedding veil is cumbersome and an uphill task. In a lot of cases, they tend to be expensive.

If you are a bride on a budget, but you don’t want those store bought off the rack veils, why not make your own customised  one.

Making a simple wedding veil is very easy and requires only a few steps. But we know that the stress of putting together a wedding may not give you the privileged of time to make a bridal veil.

 So, if you feel that making your own wedding veil seems too daunting and overwhelming for you at this stressful time, why not assign the duty of making the veil to your mother, sister  or maid of honour.

All they need for the work are a pair of scissors, a comb (or a tiara with a comb inset),  faux pearls or diamante, fabric glue, needle and thread, and most important of all, tulle. Tulle can be found in major fabric stores in a variety of types and colour.

Choose the soft tulle, and not the stiff and scratchy types.

Decide what length of veil you want.

• For a shoulder-length veil, you will need 24 inches of fabric.
• Waist length will require about 32 inches.
• For fingertip length, you will need 40 inches.
• Floor length will vary by your height.
• You can also have a longer, cathedral-length veil that goes onto the ground.

You can incorporate elements of the past with pieces of the present to create your own vintage style.

Why not mix the old with the new which is what its all about anyway. Blending the past traditions into your wedding by adding vintage styles is unique and elegant.

Adding this vintage style is also a fantastic way to look beautiful and chic, without losing personal style or looking like a cookie cutter bride as most brides tend to look on the d-dayTo use vintage elements, you don't necessarily need to recreate a period costume or even stick to a particular decade. Mine the bygone styles and mix them with the new, or the vintage inspired.

You can decide to become, on your wedding day, luxurious & glamorous, sassy & cute, slinky, girly or frilly, OR, ecclectic. Watching old movie classics, or finding photos of the bygone eras online, can wake up ideas in you.

Start out by writing out a list of these descriptions for yourself, then use this as a basis for picking out the elements of your look and style on your wedding day..

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