How To Use Your Wedding Veil After Your Wedding Day
JANUARY 3, 2023
Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, and it only makes sense to dress to the nines on your special day. A great way to add beauty to your wedding day outfit is with accessories and a veil. A wedding veil adds style and beautiful delicate touch to your wedding day outfit, which makes your wedding outfit look dreamy, and lovely and gives you amazing bridal photos. However, your veil should not be wrapped up and stored away only to be looked at later. If you’re not of the opinion of preserving your beautiful wedding dress and veil, then we have some ideas for you! This blog will go over some ideas that will help you use your wedding veil and will give you some tips to preserve your dress and the veil.
How to Use Your Wedding Veil After Your Wedding Day?
A wedding veil is not only perfect for your wedding day, but also for so many other events that you will have with the love of your life. From using your wedding day veil for some interesting home decor details to adding it to your outfits, there’s much to do! Let’s dive in, shall we?
- Use it as an outfit accessory
The first option is to add veils to your outfits! It may sound far-fetched but hear us out! This idea goes well for a classy, yet stylish birdcage veil. No matter what color, a birdcage veil is perfect for a chic outfit! If you have a studded birdcage veil to go with a detailed wedding dress, you can pair the studded birdcage veil with an absolutely stunning simple outfit with rhinestones or studded details. Apart from this, you can also use the same studded birdcage veil with an outfit with a lot of faux diamond or rhinestone details. Of all the different types of wedding veils, a birdcage veil is the best option to be paired with your day-to-day outfits. What’s more, to add more style to your outfit with the birdcage veil you can add a hat on top. You can also try matching the color of your veil with the hat. Or better yet, you could use complementary colors to make the ensemble outfit with a hat and the birdcage veil look perfect. The choice is yours. However, a word of caution, longer veils, even medium-length veils cannot be paired with outfits apart from your wedding dress. The reason is simple, those veils have an extremely “wedding aesthetic.”.
- Tapestry and displays with your wedding veil
Now that you know what to do with a small veil, how about we talk about the longer ones? Longer wedding veils are popular, and rightfully so. They are glamorous, beautiful, and exceptionally lovely, which is why you should not hide them away after the day of the wedding. If you have a long wedding veil, creating a tapestry out of it will be the best way to go about it. A tapestry could be a photo collage of you and your soulmate or could have DIY floral details with some greenery. To preserve the mesh of the fabric, make sure you do not glue the DIY flowers or greenery. Instead, use pins. Pins are easy to take off and don’t damage your veil. What’s more, you always unpin the decor for the tapestry, wash the veil, or change the decor to change things up. Additionally, a great idea is to get the tapestry that you create framed. If you hang the veil and the tapestry without framing it, the veil can become pale.
Apart from this, another idea to repurpose your wedding day’s hair accessories is to create a beautiful photo display. You can use one photo or make a photo collage of your wedding photos for the display. Once you pick out the photos you want to frame, you can choose the size. For example, you can have a bunch of small photos or one large photo. Depending on the size of your photo, add a few inches worth of space on all sides of the photo, this will give you space to showcase your wedding veil and its details. This one works especially well for veils with lace. Chapel-length veils are also perfect for this idea! Once you have everything ready, simply arrange the veil, fold it up, and arrange the details so that they show. Then, place your photos and put them in the frame. That’s it! You can use your hair pieces, the smaller ones to add details to the lace as well. Apart from this, you can cut some thin pieces of colorful paper, cut them into thin strips, and layer them to add more vibrancy to your displays. A great tip for an awesome photo display for your wedding photos and veil is to test out different styles before finalizing one of them.
- Hang it up as a canopy!
Canopies are beautiful, no matter where you add them, canopies add a lot of beauty to your home and space. One of the best ideas for a veil turned into a canopy is to use it for your baby’s crib. However, if you’re not expecting a child yet, you can create a space at home and use it there. Every home has a cozy spot, perhaps a spot that you and your partner use for date nights, romantic dinners, or a spot to relax; a canopy made out of your wedding veil will add the right touch of warmth. The best part about using a wedding veil canopy for a cozy spot in your home instead of hanging it as a canopy for your baby’s crib is that you can always unhook the canopy and wrap it so that it won’t be dirty, and pull it out whenever needed! As we suggested, in the previous idea that you can use DIY floral details or other pretty details to add more charming details to your wedding veil. Apart from this, you can use string light decor to add more details to your spot. String light decor always adds some interesting details to room decor. Apart from this, you can also add some lantern decor to the spot. Another great way to add more of your wedding day charms to the best spot in your home is to use some of the wedding decor details. For example, you can keep some wedding decor items, and drapes to add to this cozy spot, so that you may always be reminded of the special day.
- Create something new with your wedding veil
One of the best ways to repurpose your wedding veil is to use it to create something special, something new. For example, you can use the fabric to create a beautiful handbag or a wallet with some extra details. Other than this, you can use the veil to create a throw-over, which you can pair with any outfit! Another great way to use your wedding veil is to have your seamstress create a summer dress with the veil. If you have a long wedding veil, you can let your creative juices flow and use the fabric in multiple pieces of clothing! For example, you can use the edges of the veil to add detail to a denim jacket, the mesh can be used to add some details to a custom dress, summer or winter, or better yet, you can use the mesh to create pretty, vintage-inspired gloves!
Bonus: Pass it as an heirloom
Wedding dresses, wedding accessories, and veils are nothing short of sheer beauty. And when something becomes a part of your happiness, you intend to pass it on to the coming generations. One of the best ways to repurpose your wedding veil is to preserve it (how to preserve a wedding veil is discussed in the next section of the blog) and pass it on as an heirloom.
How do you preserve your wedding dress and wedding veil?
Since your wedding is one of the most important days of your life, it only makes sense for you to improve the experience by preserving the outfit of the day. From hair accessories to your wedding shoes, you can preserve all of them without worrying about damaging them over years. Preserving your wedding day outfit is not only great for you if you want to pass it down as an heirloom, but also for those who want to open a box of their wedding day outfit to enjoy the memories of the day. If you want to preserve your wedding outfit then here are some tips and advice for you!
- Make sure you fold it well and place it in a storage bag
For wedding veils, it is instrumental for you to fold the veil neatly and make sure that there are no creases or folds in the veil. A long wedding veil can be folded in about two to three folds. With every fold, please remember to even out the creases before the next fold. Also, when you put the veil in a storage bag, make sure that there are no entangling buttons or other elements that could destroy the fabric. Also, make sure that the hangar you use for your veil is not spilling over. The veil should be folded neatly in a bag. PS: This applies to both wedding dresses and veils.
- Deep cleaning before storage
Simply cleaning your wedding outfits will not be enough. After your wedding, make sure that your wedding dress and veil are deep-cleaned. Deep cleaning ensures that no dust particles are left behind. Usually, after being deep cleaned, you will find that the cleaners give the dress and the veil back to you in a plastic bag. You can use this bag to neatly fold and place it in a storage bag.
- Air the wedding outfit regularly
Although it is appealing to get your dress cleaned and just pack it away for eternity, the fabric can be damaged if you don’t air the dress. The neat folds that you make, and leave, will simply stay that way and the fabric will lose its strength there. In other words, your wedding dress will not look like your wedding dress later. So, air it regularly. And if, when you’re airing the wedding dress, you feel that it needs cleaning, get it cleaned before putting it back in the storage bag.
- An airtight box for your headpieces and jewelry
If you’re thinking about preserving your wedding jewelry then the first step would be to clean the jewelry pieces. Once that is done, find an air-tight box to fit all of your jewelry. Before adding your jewelry to the box, make sure that you line the box well. If you don’t the jewelry pieces can rattle, and rub against each other, which may leave micro-abrasions. So, use a liner, and try to find small pouches with a soft inner lining to store the wedding day jewelry pieces in it. Put every piece of jewelry in a different pouch if you can, and put it in the box. An air-tight box is our best suggestion because it ensures that no air gets in the box, which can dull the jewelry pieces. Also, depending on the metal of your jewelry, the cleaning process will be different.
And with that, we come to the end of our blog. We hope that the ideas that we list for repurposing your wedding veil help you utilize your veil! Also, if you do not want to use it or are not sure about using the veil for anything, you can use the steps we listed at the end of the blog to preserve the wedding outfit. If you change your mind in the future, you can always pull out the pretty wedding veil and use it to create something that will add value to your home and help you cherish the memories of your wedding day better, forever.
