How To: Straightening Your Veil

​The day before my wedding, my aunt (with good intentions) decided to help get my veil ready for me by ironing out the wrinkles. Unfortunately, as we soon learned, ironing a veil can cause it to melt and become distorted.

Nixing that option, the next obvious choice is to steam your veil. Honestly, in some instances this might work just fine, depending on the fabric of your veil. Normally though, when I tried this with veils in my shop, I ended up steaming the wall behind the veil and the steamer had little to no effect on the veil itself.

By far the easiest method I have found sounds a little crazy—maybe a bit too easy? Here’s the deal.

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1. Put your veil under cold or lukewarm running water until it is completely wet. If soaking your veil is scary for you, go ahead and squirt it down with water as much as you feel comfortable with! That should do the job too.
   
   
2. Drape your veil over a towel rack and spread it so there are as few folds as possible.
   
   
3. Place chip clips (4-5, or however many you have is fine) on the edges to pull the veil tight.
   
   
4. Let dry.

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​Voila! Your veil will be wrinkle-free and gorgeous overnight! ​​