Wedding Planner NJ - What To Do With Tattoos?

It's a long standing joke that the last thing you want to do if you want your relationship to last is to tattoo your significant other's name or face on your body. As soon as you put that eternal reminder on your skin, the clock begins counting down to when the relationship ends.

Eva Longoria is only the latest to discover that truism.  After having her wedding date -- 07-07-07 (actually VII VII MMVII)-- to pro basketball player Tony Parker tattooed on her wrist, the marriage was doomed. She also has the word "Nine" -- Parker's jersey number -- tattooed on the back of her neck. Angelina Jolie was another star suffering a similar fate (the vials of Billy Bob Thornton's blood were much easier to dispose of) Just recently she appears to have had that bad wrist reminder surgically removed by laser.

But plenty of brides getting married have tattoos that they don't want removed, yet they also don't want them showing. Whether a tattoo was a result of youthful indiscretion, a reminder of a wilder youth, or just a part of your personality, there are sometimes we'd rather not have it on display. A wedding is often one of those times.

What are a bride's options? For small tattoos, you can use coverup make as Eva Longoria did for awhile, using a concealer that matches your skin tone before misting on a spray foundation. If you go over all that with a translucent powder, the look should be seamless. You'll definitely want to practice with any coverup kits before the Big Day, even Dermablend, one of the more highly recommended kits out there.

Large tattoos, however, might present more of a challenge. Airbrushing is popular or choosing a wedding gown that hides as much as possible. There's also there's the possibility of wearing a bolero or a shawl. If it's a matter of not having them show up in pictures, your photographer might be able to help you with that, even by suggesting certain angles to shoot photos from. I'm not a fan of having photos Photoshopped, but that is also a possibility too.

However, if you do have very large tattoos on exposed parts of your body, then they are very much a part of who you are and rather than hide from their exposure, embrace it. They represent you, your personality, feelings and emotions you had at the time you had it done. There's no reason really you need to run from that.

What are your views? Should brides go to extraordinary lengths to cover tattoos, even large ones, or allow them to be exposed in all their brilliant colors?