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Stoke-on-Trent bride has dad's ashes put into wedding nails | |
(about 7 hours later) | |
A bride whose dad died four months before her wedding still had him with her on the day after his ashes were incorporated into her acrylic nails. | |
Charlotte Watson and her husband Nick brought their wedding forward when Mick Barber's cancer spread. | Charlotte Watson and her husband Nick brought their wedding forward when Mick Barber's cancer spread. |
When he died shortly before the big day, Charlotte's cousin, who works as a nail artist, had the idea to use his ashes in her design. | When he died shortly before the big day, Charlotte's cousin, who works as a nail artist, had the idea to use his ashes in her design. |
"It really felt like he was there," said Charlotte, from Stoke-on-Trent. | "It really felt like he was there," said Charlotte, from Stoke-on-Trent. |
Charlotte's cousin Kirsty Meakin, a nail artist and YouTuber, said: "The ashes were in a little glass pot and we looked through them and picked the pieces we thought would work." | Charlotte's cousin Kirsty Meakin, a nail artist and YouTuber, said: "The ashes were in a little glass pot and we looked through them and picked the pieces we thought would work." |
Kirsty, who has more than a million subscribers on YouTube, said she wanted the ashes to be "suspended in clear acrylic" on Charlotte's nails. | Kirsty, who has more than a million subscribers on YouTube, said she wanted the ashes to be "suspended in clear acrylic" on Charlotte's nails. |
"It was a bit surreal - these were the ashes of my uncle Mick. I felt slightly detached from it at certain points because otherwise I'd have been a blubbering wreck," she said. | |
"It was only when it was completed it sank in what it was. That her dad would be holding her hand on her wedding day." | "It was only when it was completed it sank in what it was. That her dad would be holding her hand on her wedding day." |
Charlotte said she "couldn't believe" the finished result, which was a pink, grey and white design finished off with gems. | |
She had been planning to walk down the aisle alone but the night before the wedding in Congleton in August, she asked her mum to accompany her. | |
Her dad was included in the day in many other ways, including in pictures on the back of her shoes, in a pendant attached to her flowers and a teddy made from one of his jumpers and a pair of jeans. |