Does the veil color need to match the wedding dress?

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I know it's hard to tell but here are the tulle color options against white :-)

I think Ivory is the safest bet. But I doubt anyone but you would notice any "off" coloring.

Champagne looks really yellowish to me against the white

The pics aren't helping me at all. Typically, you shouldn't have mutliple shades of color between the veil and the gown (FWIW, my daughter had a Maggie that was so champagne it was actually light gold -- stunningly beautiful, but the veil needed to be dyed to match the gown). I'd suggest you get significant samples of the tulle from your etsy seller. I don't mean swatches...I mean enough to bunch it up as you described to see the real life affect. Even if you have to pay for good sized samples, do it. Take the samples to your bridal salon and ask your consultant to pull a sample of your gown and see what the both of you think. It's very difficult to make such an important decision based on computer images.

What Centerpiece said. You may not see it when looking in person, but the difference will show in pictures.

Thank you all. I think Centerpiece is on to something. It's probably worth spending a bit more to get a big chunk of the tulle samples. That way I can literally see the color matching when it's bunched up behind my back versus draped over the skirt of the dress.

I also had a bit of a hunt to find a veil color that would work with my dress. My dress was a Maggie Sottero in "light gold". To complicate matters, the overlay on the dress was ligher than the base color of the dress.

Most standard ivories were too brown and the whites were too bright. It was maddening. I eventually found 2 veils in "candelight" and "butterscotch" that were pretty close. I had to ditch the idea of any strong edging on the veil as I simply could't find any edging that was a close enough match to not be REALLY obvious.

I had to take veil swatches (approx 2x2 ft) to the salon and hold them up to the actual dress. (DO NOT work off of photographs of the dress. You will go crazy and still probably won't have a good match.) Keep in mind that the most bunched-up part of the veil will be right next to your head and not right next to the dress.

Also, my photographer recommended that, if the match was in-exact, it was better for the veil to be slightly lighter/whiter than the dress itself to avoid having it photograph as "dirty"

Here's a photo that shows the veil I ended up with on the day of. Not my favorite photo but is the best choice for this purpose.

*edited for typos AND: yikes! I just realized that it is clear in this photo just how dirty the hem of my dress became over the course of the evening in our garden venue.