My veil had been hanging up with my wedding dress so that it wasn't wrinkly. However, when we took my dress to get steamed the week of the wedding, the veil fell to the bottom of the bag and of course got all crinkly. "Not a problem" my mother said, "I'll steam it." However, when she grabbed my cousins arm and yanked her outside, and I heard a stream of expletives coming from her- I knew something was probably wrong.
So I waited a few minutes and my cousin came back in with a look on her face like she was about to deliver horrible news. My mom had burned a hole in my veil. She had turned the iron up higher to steam it and then got distracted when she turned to talk to someone. As she turned, the iron turned and she burned a hole in my veil. At which point she grabbed my cousin and starting yelling the F bomb on repeat and ran down to our basement to try to hide it from me.
As I said before...I had been insanely calm all day. And this didn't really change it. I was upset- but guess what, I was going to get married whether I wore my veil or not and I would be fine with it. However, when I went to tell me mom that everything was OK- she burst into tears...which of course made me burst into tears. And that was it- only time I cried all day...and not because I was mad or upset because of what had happened, but because I knew my mom felt so horrible about it.
We schemed for a while on how to fix it. My one local bridesmaid was calling all her friends to see if anyone had a veil I could use. But we ended up arranging it in a way the hole couldn't be seen and hair spraying it so it wouldn't expand. And no one saw it all day. In fact, the only photographic evidence I have is this one photo...and most people have told me they didn't even notice it without me pointing it out (hence the large red circle).
