It's official. The world is full of weirdos.
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| Exhibit A: Beautiful, ethereal veil shot. By Kelly Prizel Photography via A Practical Wedding |
When our wedding was featured on Rock My Wedding last week (oh - did I already mention that?), I wrote that at first I wasn't sure about wearing a veil, but "after seeing so many natural, almost ethereal shots of brides with veils I decided to go for a simple long veil". That's the classy version (and also true). But there was, in fact, another reason.
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| Exhibit B: Hair. Meh. |
My hair can best be described as "meh". I don't mind the colour (read: I'm too lazy and/or cheap to dye it), but it's not got much volume, it has an irritating flick on the right side that will. not. turn. under, and it grows sooooo slooooowly. So, for most of my adult life it's been around shoulder length. Sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little shorter, but generally middle-ish. Oh, how I dreamt of having long, luscious locks that I could flick! and swish! and toss over my shoulder! But it was just never going to happen.
Until - I found The Ponytail.
The Ponytail was purchased in Nice. My friend and I went there for the summer to find a job and improve our French, but in reality all we did was sunbathe, read Penny Vincenzi novels and shamefacedly return home after a month having spent our entire student loans in H&M.
On one particular trip to H&M, as I idly perused the impulse-buy baskets next to the till, I spied something that looked at first like a shrink-wrapped hamster but turned out to be a long, blonde, hideously cheap fake ponytail attached to a hairclip.
Obviously, I bought it.
On one particular trip to H&M, as I idly perused the impulse-buy baskets next to the till, I spied something that looked at first like a shrink-wrapped hamster but turned out to be a long, blonde, hideously cheap fake ponytail attached to a hairclip.
Obviously, I bought it.
The Ponytail is endlessly versatile. It has transformed me into a schoolgirl, a Playboy bunny, a cheerleader, a beauty queen, one third of Sheilas' Wheels (I was a young and foolish student. I found myself in a lot of fancy dress situations). I have taken it to birthday parties, work parties, even wedding parties. Sometimes I just wear it around the house and pretended to be Gisele. Suffice to say, The Ponytail was worth every cent of that €2.99.
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| Exhibit C: The Ponytail in action. (Not my usual nails, btw) |
So, flash forward to the wedding. I was humming and hawing about whether to wear a veil. I mean, I didn't want to be a "princessy" bride. I wanted to be like a cool, beachy, chilled-out bride. I really didn't want to walk around with a massive thing just dangling off the back of my head like a HOLD ON A MINUTE. What am I THINKING? It would be like The Ponytail! Except better! It would be like the best fake ponytail in the WORLD!!!
