I am really struggling right now if I want to wear a tiara for my upcoming August wedding and I'm looking for some input...
The backstory: When I was about 24 years old I was engaged and my grandmother who I was extremely close with and who passed away 2 years ago purchased my dress, veil, shoes and tiara. That engagement was called off for a variety of reasons and now, a little over 6 years later I am engaged again and only months away from my wedding. I held onto all of the things she bought for the previous wedding because those things were never about that groom, she bought them out of love for me and it was an experience that the two of us shared. The dress grandma purchased is far too small now and is being made into a table runner to use on the memorial table. The shoes have gone missing, I have moved several times since then and I honestly have no idea where they would have gone. The veil I will be wearing in combination with my mother's veil (we are layering the two together). But I am torn about wearing the tiara....
A part of me wants to wear it, the youngest of 5 I am the only girl in my family and have always been the princess...plus like I say, it was something grandma purchased for me, it was expensive, it is a beautiful piece...I don't want to see it go to waste.
But I worry...is a tiara something that a young bride wears? I mean, I am not 24 anymore...I have rounded the corner into my 30s. My dress is far more elegant and less princess...it is considered a sheath style with a long train. It has elegant lace and beading and it reminiscent of turn of the century (early 1900s) opulence vs the fuller ballgown style usually associated with the princess type look.
What do you ladies think? As a 30 year old bride is a tiara a bit juvenile? I am hypersensitive to the opinions of others...the last thing I want on my wedding day is to have my guest whispering behind their hands to one another about how silly it is that I am wearing the tiara. But it also fits who I am...for my 30th birthday party I wore a beautiful tiara (paired with a dinosaur printed dress...don't get me wrong... I don't take myself too seriously)...and like I said, it is a beautiful memory of a beautiful woman who can't be there with me on this most special day. I am just so torn...