We’re falling for the romance of traditional tulle and lace all over again.
for bride Lucy Smith , has been inundated with requests for exquisite hand-stitched veils reaching up to 15 feet of fabulousness. “I don’t know what it is, but seeing a beautiful bride with an incredible veil on is magic,” says Bourvis, who has also made tulle looks for Carrie Bradshaw in. “Maybe it’s the dream we sort of carry for women – we get very emotional about it and many tears flow, especially from mothers, when a veil is tried on, or worn on the day.
There can be no doubt of a veil’s transformative effect. I almost ditched mine, because the thought of negotiating Bourvis’s lovely lace down the makeshift aisle in an industrial London venue seemed stressful, and a touch faffy, for a day supposed to be about pure joy. But our photographer, the wonderful Lucy Birkhead, persuaded me to pin it on and roll with it.
“Honestly, when else will you get the opportunity to wear one?” asks bridalwear designer Kate Halfpenny, whose most popular veil, the Margaret, features an epic train, a soft tulle dandelion veil and hand-cut silk organza flowers dotted all over it. “I think we’ve all taken the attitude that more is more, and that we want the magic and the drama – veils add those things!”
Halfpenny, who has been dressing high-profile clients, from Kate Moss to Rihanna, since 1998, has seen a surge of women adding veils to the looks they ordered pre-Covid. So much so, that she launched a collection called “Unveiled” with bridal add-ons, such as overskirts and veils of varying sizes, to facilitate the sudden urge to go “all out”. “It’s another opportunity to have fun and play with expectations,” adds Halfpenny.
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