Bride Incorporates Late Father’s Ashes into Wedding Nails

Charlotte Walton, of Staffordshire, England, was devastated when her beloved father, Mick, passed away from cancer a few months before her wedding. A week after his death she concocted an idea with her cousin, Kirsty Meakin, for her father to still be represented there.

Meakin is a popular nail artist who shares her tutorials online with 1.5 million YouTube followers, and the video she posted of her cousin’s nails has now amassed 50,000 views. Meakin and Walton sifted through “tiny bits of bone fragments” in Mick’s ashes, picking out some of the pieces to be mixed in with clear coating used atop Walton wedding nails.

The final product had a unique, glittery aspect to the nails. “It was a unique thing to do but I loved it, I felt like he was able to walk me down the aisle, which I knew was something he really wanted to do,” the bride said. After the wedding, Walton removed the fake nails and had them framed as a keepsake.

See Michael Bartiromo, Bride Incorporates Late Father’s Ashes into Wedding Nails, Uses ‘Tiny Bits of Bone Fragment’ for Glittery Look, Fox News, October 8, 2019.