6 Beautiful Ways to Customise Your Wedding Veil

Creative ideas for custom wedding veil personalisation inspired by real brides.

When it comes to personalising your bridal look, your veil offers far more possibilities than many brides realise.

At The Wedding Veil Shop, we specialise in handmade and bespoke veils, and some of our favourite designs over the years have come from creative, meaningful customisations that go way beyond just choosing a length or colour.

If you’re looking for a custom wedding veil personalisation that feels completely you, here are five of the more unusual — and beautiful — ways to bring your ideas to life.

1. Add Meaningful Embroidery (aka “Veil Personalisation”)

Let’s start with the obvious one — because of course, one of the most popular ways to personalise your veil is with, well, personalisation.

We offer a full menu of embroidery options that can be added to almost any of the veils on our website. Whether you’re choosing one of the 100+ veils in our collection or building your own using our Custom Veil Designer, you can simply add these personalisation extras to your basket — creating an almost limitless combination of styles.

Some of the most popular custom wedding veil personalisation options include:

• Names and wedding date

• Entwined hearts with initials

• Interlocked monograms

• Birth flowers — yours on one side, your partner’s on the other

• Decorative floral initials for a romantic touch

• Recreation of a love one’s handwriting

2. Use Our Custom Veil Designer Tool

Speaking of combinations, did you know we have a full-featured Custom Veil Designer Tool on our website?

This interactive tool lets you create your veil step-by-step, choosing from:

• Veil length (including custom lengths)

• Veil width

• Tulle colour

• Edge finishes (cut edge, satin edge, stitched, etc.)

• Beading and sparkle options

It’s perfect for brides who want full control over their custom wedding veil personalisation — down to the smallest detail.

Note: The only thing you can’t add via the designer tool is lace — and here’s why…

3. Go Bespoke with Lace

There are so many ways to add lace to a veil that it simply doesn’t work as a dropdown option. We’ve found it’s much better to handle lace customisation through direct collaboration.

Popular lace styles include:

• Full lace trim all the way around

• Lace only around the train

• Lace up to fingertip level

• Scattered appliqués

• Appliqués placed densely at the bottom so they “grow up” the veil

• Or even a pair of appliqués used to frame embroidered words

We have a huge library of lace options in the studio, and we’re happy to help you choose the perfect one. If you’ve seen something you love on Pinterest or elsewhere, send it to us — we’ll often be able to create something similar with our own handmade touch.

For the full scoop on how the bespoke lace veil ordering process works, read out blog here: Bespoke Lace Veils | Creating Your Perfect Wedding Veil. Then just get in touch with your ideas.

4. Add Beading — and Even Colour

Once a bride sees her lace options, the next question is often: “Can I add sparkle too?” Absolutely.

We regularly embellish veils with beading including:

• Pearls

• Clear crystals

• Diamantes

• AB beads (for that rainbow shimmer)

But we’ve also done veils with coloured crystals — soft pinks, pale blues, and even a full rainbow effect. If your dress includes a specific beading style or colour, just let us know. We’ll do our best to match it.

Check out our veil beading guide here for more info.

5. Choose a Veil in a Non-Traditional Colour

Speaking of colour… there are so many beautiful tulle shades beyond ivory.

Some of our favourite real bride moments include:

• A pale pink veil to match an ivory/pink ombré gown

• A dramatic black lace veil to go with a black wedding dress

• A bride who wore a short soft-blue veil for her first look, and a five-metre ivory lace veil for the ceremony

Adding colour to your veil can be a really modern twist and a great way to get in your “something blue” or to match up to a non-traditional coloured dress.

6. Customise the Length — As Long As You Like

That same bride who wore the blue veil for her first look? Her ivory ceremony veil was a showstopper — five metres long.

We’ve even created a seven-metre veil for a bride who wanted it to keep flowing long after she reached the altar.

While fingertip, chapel, and cathedral lengths are classics, we can make your veil in any length you like. Whether you want soft and subtle or aisle-filling drama, we’ve got you.

Final Thoughts

There’s no one way to wear a wedding veil — and that’s the best part. From embroidered initials to lace placement, coloured tulle to rainbow beading, custom wedding veil personalisation lets you create something uniquely yours.

You can start designing your own today with our Custom Veil Designer Tool, or reach out to us with your inspiration and ideas.

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Take a look through our Instagram — we share real bride photos, past custom designs, and behind-the-scenes peeks from the studio.

We can’t wait to make your veil!