Bride squad hats

A cap is the opposite purchase to the sunglasses on the neighbouring page. It is one item at a real price, it survives the weekend intact, it goes home in the case, and it is the piece somebody is still wearing in a photograph two years later. That changes how many you buy. Sunglasses are ordered by the head count plus two; caps are ordered by the head count exactly, and it is worth spending the difference on the wording being embroidered rather than printed, because print cracks and stitching does not.

Water settles the argument between the two pages. On a boat or at a pool, sunglasses go overboard and caps dry out, so a weekend on water wants the caps and a weekend in a city can go either way. The other thing worth planning around is hair. Set hair and a cap do not agree, so if anybody is having anything done on the Saturday afternoon, the hats belong to the Friday and the Sunday. The cowgirl hats are their own decision entirely: they photograph enormously well, they take up half a suitcase, and nobody has ever regretted packing one.

This page is one slice of the Bride Squad catalogue, cut by the job rather than by the shelf the pieces sit on.