The big wedding day has arrived! It is time to plan your wedding, down to every detail including your style, from head to toe. Let us focus on your head. A headpiece could be a nice complement to a beautiful wedding gown. One type of headpiece is a wedding crown.
Wedding crowns are usually embellished with a floral or pearl design. They usually contain a simple metal band and fit well with a more traditional style. If a bride has thicker, fuller hair, she will want a heavier wedding crown or wedding tiara crown. If a bride has thinner, shorter hair, she will want a horseshoe headband or a wedding tiara crown that can be securely fastened to her head. In addition, she should make sure that along with her headpiece, she brings her veil to her hairstylist.
A crown with an interesting history is the Norwegian wedding crown. Norwegian wedding crowns often have gems or charms on them. One reason for this is that Norwegians often believed that the sound of the charms clinking on the crown protects the bride from evil spirits. It may also have silk ribbons adorning it.
A fresher look that is still traditional is to mirror the ancient Greek wedding crown. This crown can be homemade or a bride could work with a florist. However, the homemade version would be better for your wallet.
There are several steps in creating an ancient-style Greek wedding crown. The parts of the crown can be found in your garden and at a local craft store.
A floral wreath ring is often used for creating a wedding flower crown. It is important to try on different sizes of floral wreath ring, keeping in mind that the herbs in a Greek wedding crown will add between one and three inches of loose bulk on the inside of the ring.
The first step in creating this type of wedding crown is to wrap the wreath ring with tape and then with newspaper. After that, wrap the newspaper in green tissue paper. Then, stick a pin halfway into the ring and wrap the ring with thread, several times. After that, collect two or three pieces of the greenery you wish to use to adorn the crown. Lay the greenery where the thread attaches to the pin. Bind all these parts of the crown by winding more thread around it and securing it with another pin. Keep adding greenery and thread until satisfied with the look of the crown. There is also a metal Greek crown, which is usually made of metal and is a small circlet.
Some traditions from the Greek wedding ceremony also find their way into a Russian wedding ceremony. However, Russian wedding crowns are different in several ways. A Russian wedding crown usually has large arcs and is usually golden in color. Though traditional and still found, a red velvet lining is not common anymore.
Returning to a natural look, a Swedish wedding crown is sometimes made out of myrtle. The less natural, but still traditional looks for the Swedish wedding crown are the simple ones that are made of ribbon and a small golden crown.
Regardless of the type of wedding crown chosen, it will need to be protected. A great way to do this is using wedding crown cases.
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