Young spouses are waiting with special trepidation and anxiety for the most important day in their lives. It is considered a wedding ceremony. This is a sacrament that takes place under the church vault. Only the closest people gather for it, wanting to congratulate the young people on such a serious deed. On your wedding day, everything should be perfect and beautiful.
After this ceremony, the young people will look at the photographs for a long time and remember this beautiful and mysterious ceremony that united their hearts for the rest of their lives. On this day, like no other, the bride and groom want to look beautiful. If such difficult questions do not arise with the groom, then it is much more difficult for the young lady to decide on the choice of outfit.
Varieties
A bridal cape is an accessory similar to a cloak with a hood. It can be elongated below the waistline or shortened in the form of a bolero.
The headdress is secured with ribbons or ropes in the neck area. The bolero-shaped accessory is fastened with a button or hook. Another option is a poncho - a shortened cape without fasteners with a slot for the head.
The bonnet, which covers only the head and shoulders of the hero of the occasion, is also popular among brides. Reference! To prevent the accessory from falling off the head during the wedding and not distracting the bride’s attention, the accessory is secured with decorative bobby pins or hair clips.
Depending on the weather, choose a cape with long or short sleeves. The fabric from which the accessory is sewn also depends on the season.
For summer weddings, white lace hoods are the most popular. For a winter celebration, choose a cape made of thick fabrics. An alternative could be a light short fur coat, boa or jacket.
Choosing a stole for a dress
You can buy a wedding cape in a store or sew it yourself. When choosing an accessory for a church ceremony, it is important to ensure that it matches the bride’s outfit. This is especially true for the color scheme.
The traditional color of a wedding dress is white. It symbolizes purity and lightness. A white dress gives a special charm to the future wife. It is best to choose a cape of the same color.
Those who want to stand out choose an accessory in a contrasting color. Blue or gray capes are completely acceptable. But in this case, you should pay attention to additional accessories. They must match the color scheme of the entire image.
When choosing a cape for a wedding, you should take into account that the hood should be quite spacious so as not to hinder the bride’s movements and not disturb her hairstyle.
And some more useful tips:
- Bolero is suitable for warm seasons and dresses with open arms, neckline and open back;
- A poncho will help hide too much neckline;
- A cape-hood suits a dress with long sleeves better than others;
- Brides who want to highlight their graceful figure and maximize the beauty of their dress will love the bolero;
- If the top of the dress is decorated with voluminous details, then it is better to opt for a modest bolero with one hook clasp;
- A maximally closed cape with long sleeves looks great with a tight-fitting dress;
- A long dress with a tight-fitting skirt can be paired with either a short bolero, a hip-length cape or even a cape.
Color combinations
It is necessary to select a scarf based on the color and style of the bride’s dress. Often young ladies select all attributes separately. This is not very good, but if you have already chosen a dress, then you just need to select the remaining elements to match it.
If your wedding dress is snow-white, then the cape itself should be of a similar tone.
Please note that even white has several tones and shades, so it is better to take a dress with you to the store to choose a bonnet.
If you want to stand out, you can add some bright elements to your cape. Only two colors are considered acceptable: red and black. Red is traditional because it is depicted in Russian national costumes, and you can even wear them to enter church.
As for black, it can be noted that it is a classic color that is worthy of being used in church attire.
Wedding hood.
Color combinations in a church are a rather ambiguous task. Because you need to choose shades in such a way that in the end you get a decent combination of colors. Not too provocative and moderately strict.
Benefits of a head cap
The cape is not just beauty and a tribute to Orthodox traditions. This accessory is quite practical and convenient. In the winter season, a correctly selected piece of clothing made of dense material will warm you up; in the summer season, it will correct the too open style of the dress.
In church, girls are prohibited from appearing with open arms and cleavage. But this does not mean that you will have to give up a dress with a deep neckline, and in the summer swelter from the heat in a dress with long sleeves. A lace bolero or poncho with a hood will come to the rescue.
Important! In bad weather, the hood will not only warm the bride, but also protect her hair. At the banquet the young wife will look impeccable.
Pros of models with a hood
Newlyweds choose hooded accessories for weddings for several reasons:
- Aesthetics – the cape adds femininity and innocence to the bride’s image. This element of clothing makes any representative of the fair sex especially attractive and mysterious;
- Compliance with church canons. A wedding in a church is a special rite that believers go through. All traditions are observed in the temple, including those relating to appearance and choice of clothing. A wedding bolero will help you comply with church canons and at the same time look attractive and luxurious;
- Originality - modern brides believe that a veil is too traditional and even a banal element of clothing. Many people refuse this accessory in favor of capes.
Materials
Despite the fact that, according to church canons, rigor and conciseness are natural, you can still show your imagination a little in the image of a bride. This can be done easily with the help of the ideal selection of materials and fabric.
The most ideal options are:
- lace;
- guipure;
- shawl;
- silk;
- atlas;
- chiffon.
Remember that the hood should not look vulgar. At the same time, it is necessary to maintain a balance. So, if your clothes are decorated and decorated with rhinestones, sequins, patterns on the fabric, then the hood should be laconic, strict and simple.
Mostly for church, women choose modest and elegant dresses and decorated capes.
You can sew beads or sequins into the cape itself. But there shouldn't be too many of them. It is extremely important to maintain balance in your look without going overboard with jewelry.
Textile
The Church welcomes modesty. However, this does not mean that a headdress made of a plain dense white fabric will be the most successful option. Even in the temple, the bride wants to look beautiful and look better than everyone else present.
A wedding cape should not be vulgar. The accessory, decorated with beads, pearls, hand embroidery, braid and other details, looks delicate.
Important! Remember a simple rule: the richer the dress is decorated, the simpler the finishing of the cape should be.
The ideal fabric for an accessory is openwork lace, tulle, satin, chiffon or guipure. The bride chooses an acceptable option, taking into account not only her own preferences, but also the wedding attire.
The fabric of the cape does not have to repeat the material from which the dress is made, but must be duplicated: in the fabric of the dress or accessories. So, a lace bolero with openwork gloves will go perfectly with a satin dress.
What is a wedding hood?
Wedding stylists strongly advise choosing the entire image for a wedding. Therefore, dresses, capes and scarves are considered inseparable. All this as a whole can create a harmonious and beautiful image of the bride.
Head cape for wedding.
No woman will be allowed to enter any church with her head uncovered. According to the commandment of the Apostle Paul, the fair half of humanity must wear a headdress as a sign of humility and submission. In church, the girl shows this obedience towards God and higher powers. Therefore, coming to the temple with your head uncovered means showing disrespect.
Girls always want to look diverse, stylish and beautiful. To do this, they select interesting accessories. If earlier women were content with simple scarves, now everything is much more complicated. Designers and stylists come up with a variety of options for brides. On the one hand, the robes look stylish and fashionable, on the other hand, they fit all church laws and canons.
A special bonnet for a wedding is a beautiful and openwork piece of fabric that covers the head, falling beautifully onto the shoulders. There are several types of capes. Some of them end just below the shoulders, while others reach the waistline. Both options are acceptable and suitable for a wedding ceremony.
A bonnet is considered a special type of cape that can cover the shoulders and head. It is quite short and performs only one function, that is, it completely covers the entire head.
The cape on the girl’s head looks light and weightless. Unlike a scarf, it does not cover the head. Accordingly, in order to avoid problems and questions during the sacrament, it is necessary to secure the bonnet to the hair with invisible ones.
We sew with our own hands
Sewing a wedding cape yourself is not difficult, especially if you have at least minimal sewing skills.
To begin with, choose the fabric. It can be silk, tulle, lace, guipure, but keep in mind that many of the materials are difficult to process, so choose based on your own skills and the capabilities of your sewing machine (the presence of an overlocker or other type of edge processing).
We buy additional threads for the fabric, and also think about how to make ties. These can be ribbons, braid, pearl buttons, hidden hooks, broth. You may like the option with a beautiful brooch, and then you won’t have to make a special clasp.
We offer two simple patterns with step-by-step instructions.
Option 1: with hood
- Cut out a circle whose diameter matches the size of the finished product;
- We mark the place for the neck, slightly shifting the circumference towards the chest;
- Draw the inner circle-neck;
- Cut straight from the front edge to the neckline. The cape is ready! All that remains is to make the hood;
- Fold the piece of fabric in half and mark a rectangle : width – half the circumference of the neck, length – the height of the hood (don’t forget to take into account the height of the hairstyle);
- Cut out a rectangle and attach it to the neckline of the cape;
- We trim the edges with a beautiful braid and sew on the ties.
Option 2: simple bolero
- Fold the material in half;
- We determine the dimensions based on the length of the bolero, for example, 40x55 cm with an allowance of 20-30 cm;
- We transfer the pattern to the fabric, taking into account that the upper dotted line is the cut, and the lower one is the drawstring line;
- We cut out the bolero, unfold it, and trim the edges with piping or using a decorative hem;
- On the outside, along the bottom dotted line, we sew a drawstring into which we thread a satin ribbon or a beautiful cord. You can decorate it with special end beads.
