Intercontinental Wedding: the DIY-wedding and graduate school and having a life

I was initially planning on diy-ing as many things as possible for the wedding. Especially things that seemed either easy and/or way over priced (huppah, flowers, veil, invitations...). Well, over the past few months many of those plans have been thrown out the window (or defenestrated as I would generally say- Beau would be disappointed if I did not use my favorite word in a total appropriate context). The flowers (for my family's sanity) were the first to go. The huppah was nixed from the DIY-list a few months ago when our florist came in a few hundred dollars under our budget and I was so swamped that I decided to throw money at the problem.

The most recent addition to the "just pay for it" list is my veil. Over the last month I realized that I really don't have the time, energy, (possibly) skill to make a veil I would be happy with, so off I went to the bridal store... and as I initially suspected my (VERY) plain veil is priced around $120 - not cool.

Disappointment.

Annoyance.

Frustration.

Then, AH! Etsy!

Serendipitiously (truly, while not even looking for veils) I found Simple Beauty Veils and now Lora is making me exactly the veil I want, and answering all my SUPER annoying questions, like - "do you think the clear plastic comb or the small wire comb will be less noticeable and less likely to get tangled in my dark curly hair?" Obsessive much? yes! Extremely nervous? Hell yes! Super stoked that my veil is being handmade by a real person not in a sweat shop, out of quality materials and for about 60% less (including shipping) than a bridal store veil all in about 2 weeks? Duh! Yes! So, I may not be DIY-ing my veil, but I feel good that at the end of the day it's one less thing to stress over, and that I'm not completely giving into the WIC.

And just because a post, isn't a post with out pictures - here are some of Lora's beautiful veils currently available for purchase.