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wyntir

Sorry i just don't understand why you would want to cover tattoos on your wedding day. Why can't they be on show? Surely you got the tattoo because you loved the design or it had meaning to you, so why cover it?


I have two tattoos, one on my back, one on my wrist, both i love and will be very much visable on my wedding day. Plus i'll be wearing a red, strapless corset and long skirt. Its a goth wedding, our guests are asked to wear dark colours.

xJayJayx

I love my tattoo but i won't love looking at my wedding photos in say 20 years time and seeing it, thats why i am choosing to cover mine up.

Now if i was having a goth wedding then perhaps i wouldn't cover it up because it adds to "theme" if you get what i mean, i couldn't think of a word then lol. So yeah perhaps i would have it on show, but because i want a nice clean cut, as it were, wedding then i don't want to be seeing my tattoo in my photos. If my OH had tattoos it wouldn't bother me if his was on show but in my wedding dress i just don't want to be showing it off.

madfrenchgirl

That;s the thing: what is the point of wearing white and acting all chaste nowadays when most people have already lived in sin... The same question could be asked rethorically of people getting married in white and not being "virgins". If I went down the same line as the OP, I would say those people are a bit hypocritical. Yet I won't because I can understand that white does look good on a wedding dress and considered it many many times instead of red.

A wedding is a celebration of who you are, your love for one another and should be just about what the bride and groom want. So why cover tattoos if they are part of you? Why not have colour instead of white? And why not having a strapless dress or a cleavage dress if you feel confident enough to pull it off, put it out or just being extravagant?

wyntir

Sorry JayJay i still don't get it. I don't think i will lol. I can't see why in years down the line it makes a difference.

xJayJayx

Thats fine hun, each to their own

The only way i can explain it is if i was to look at my photos (or future children were) the tattoo would take away the focus on the dress? one of my friends has a swallow on her upper arm and the first thing i saw when i looked at her photos was the tattoo, he dress was stunning but all i could see was this ruddy great big swallow on her arm.

val_84

lol, this thread has made me laugh. I have 5 tattoos.... 1 on my stomach, 3 on my lower back and one in between my shoulder blades, while Im not making a conscious effort to cover the only visible one up I am aware that my hair and probably my veil will cover it but I am not bothered at all if it is on show as its who I am.

my sister on the other hand who is one of my BMs has a panther on her boob, 4different ones on her wrist and a massive 'sleeve' she has just started on her shoulder.... I have told her I am not bothered in the slightest if she has them on show but she has let me know she is doing everything she can to cover them up even for the photos...although Im not sure if that is my mums gentle persuasion? lol. I also have a lip peircing which I will be keeping in but substituting my normal bar for a slightly smaller one with a purple crystal (my wedding colours)

With regards to the dress I think the different style is reflective of a different time, Woman are more comfortable in their bodies these days and can wear what they feel comfortable in. I havent really seen any of these strapless corseted dresses that have any cleavage on show as they are all tastefully done so as not to be vulgar, I can understand how it can seem like that just from looking at my parents wedding photos but who wants the world to stay as it was? especially considering not so long ago in the grand scheme of things woman werent even considered individuals?

Anyway, this was just me procrastinating (sp?) from doing some work so think I may have to get back to it

kr15snw

Meh alright for all you girls talking about popping out!

Even if I have the worlds best push up bra these tiny !!!!!!s will never fall out

aimee21j

Some are vile- I do agree. Mine is strapless. I was adamant I wasn't going to have one but it suited me much better than ones with straps and sleeves.

madfrenchgirl

I had to go strapless because Halternecks were making me too butch and straps made me too "momsy"...

sexki11en

:rotfl: strapless here AND I have tattoos. I will be covering them up though because much as they are part of 'me' they are not the 'me' I want to be on my wedding day if that makes sense. I want to be all demure and floaty and my tattoos (a spider web on my chest and a black rose on the top of my left arm) are not that!!!

SK x