Mo Sews: Other Wedding Stuff

Here are some other things I made for the wedding :)

The Veil

I made a simple veil out of tulle and my lace scallop border. I used this very helpful tutorial to help me make the veil. It was a very simple process that involved cutting the tulle into a sort of rounded rectangle shape, gathering the top edge, attaching the comb, and sewing on the trim. I bought a no-slip Grip-Tuth comb, and so to attach the comb to the veil (I didn't want to glue), I followed this youtube video. I took a long, narrow piece of tulle and wrapped it around the top part of the comb, which gave me a place to stitch the gathered part of the veil to. I wanted my veil to frame my face, so I only gathered a small portion in the center at the top of the veil.

The hair flower is from Shazam Vintage.

The Cake Topper

As I thought about the cake topper, I wasn't quite sure what I was wanting. I did a quick google search for "1940's cake toppers" (since that is kind of our theme) and found lots of images of bride and groom cake toppers with the groom in uniform.

My fiance was in the Marine Corps and I thought it would be so cool to have a Marine groom to celebrate his service. I made the cake topper with Sculpey Polymer Clay. I began with tin foil armatures and then generally began adding clay to get the rough shapes of us. I gradually added detail until I was happy with how we looked. I fired the clay in the oven. My head was pretty heavy because of the hair and so unfortunately my head leans back a little bit. Perhaps I look like I am praying ;)

After that, I painted us and added a coat of acrylic matte medium. I had to get creative with the flags as I had a hard time finding flags that looked in proportion to my people. I ended up printing out my flags on paper, two of each for a front and a back. In a Word document, I placed one flag right next to the second version of it, which I reversed. When I printed them out, I just cut them out as one piece and folded it over an unfolded bobby pin. I used matte medium to join the two sides, and then covered the outsides with medium as well. While the paper was wet, I used my fingers to shape the flags so that they appear to be "waving." I'm definitely not a sculptor but I like the way it turned out.