Inspirations & Alterations: A December Bride, part 2

In my last post I described the alterations made on this bride’s dress. In this post, I’m going to show you how her headpiece and veil came together using pieces from her mom’s headpiece.

Her mom’s veil and headpiece were just great, great like something from the 1980’s.. it was so fun to work with it - changing parts of it while keeping parts of it similar to the original design.

Bride’s mom’s veil

The idea for the bride’s headpiece and veil was to use just the bottom piece of her mom’s headpiece and add a removable veil.

Mom’s veil and headpiece separated

A closer look at the lower section of the
headpiece before I got started

I did not want to change the design of the lower piece, just make the weave a little tighter.

To do this, I needed a starting point. Starting on one side, I untwisted the strands until I got close to the end of the wrapped wire and began weaving from there.

Untwisting before starting the new twist design

Making progress, slow and steady

Just about finished

As I was going along, I secured sections to the wrapped wire with invisible thread. When I reached the other side, I taped the ends together with blue painter’s tape so I could fit it to the bride. After making sure of the fit, I replaced the painter’s tape with masking tape and wrapped the ends in tulle.

Ends wrapped with blue painters tape, temporarily

Replaced the blue tape with masking tape,
then covered ends in tulle

With the headpiece finished, I started on the veil. I cut a piece of tulle long enough for a finger tip veil and blusher then secured the comb about a third of the way from one end (this would be the blusher.)

The piece of tulle is gathered from side to side forming
the blusher on one end, the veil on the other.

The comb was wrapped in tulle then secured to the veil along the gathers.

The veil is attached over the back of the headpiece.
It can easily be removed by just carefully removing the
comb from the bride’s hair, leaving the headpiece in place