You can keep your food trucks, Mason jar cocktails and ironic photobooths because China has cooked up the most insane wedding trend.
Brides across the nation have fallen in love with magical “flying veils.” These aren’t regular veils, oh no — these veils zoom down the aisle after the bride, magically landing on her head with a delicate, dainty touch. It’s as if there are two little birds holding it aloft, a la every Disney princess ever.
Alas, the flying veil trend is merely a sleight-of-hand involving, as all the craziest trends do, a lot of elaborate rigging and a pulley system worthy of your backyard tree house. It’s about as magic as the Orlando basketball team and the male stripper known as Mike. As in, it’s magic in name only.
Still, we can’t deny that this looks completely incredible and delightfully extra.
And for every ’90s kid who grew up on a diet of Harry Potter and Ursula K. Le Guin, it has the added benefit of making you look like a genuine, bona fide wizard for a few minutes.