galadhir

It's Daughter's wedding next year (2025 - made up sci-fi year.) And she's decided to have a 'high fae' theme for the do.

Specifically, she said 'you know the party that was going on in Mirkwood, that the dwarves kept trying to barge into? The one where they would hear the distant music and smell the delicious smell of the food, and see the fires, and yet when they would run toward it, it would disappear entirely and leave them lost in the darkness under the trees? Yeah? I want this to be that party.'

Which I think is awesome and I understand completely. I also would have loved to go to that party - and now it seems I shall!

Daughter and Fiance have been crafting table settings and invitations and many other things, and she put a picture of one of the table centerpieces up on her instagram. It featured moss and stones and sparkly lights and skulls, and I think looked really cool. But Parents-in-law claimed the skulls were morbid. Despite initially going 'it's your wedding, you must have what you want,' they are now going, 'but not like that.'

This made me determined to lean into the skull theme. (It's an ancient magical forest, how could it not have skulls?)

DH has made his own 18th Century style coat (in black, with large blue cuffs) and leather top hat, but I had not made anything for it, having already bought a very floaty dress and a lovely faerie coat.

So I was feeling bad about my level of effort, and decided to make myself something to wear on my head, instead of the traditional 'mother of the bride' hat.

And it had to have skulls.

And - in explanation for the title of this post and the plaster I have around my thumb in the photo, I did drip hot glue on myself and when I took it off again a section of skin on my thumb came with it. The answer to the question in the title, it turns out, is 'too hot.'