Gold line drawing of a sugar skull bride with heart-shaped eyes, a crown of roses and flowers, and the word BRIDE beneath, as a flash design.

Sugar skull bride with rose crown

Botanical · Colour · Flash

A line drawing of a sugar skull wearing a veil and a crown of roses and small flowers, with heart-shaped eye sockets, lashes, dotted cheek details and a stylised heart nose. The word BRIDE is set in a hand-lettered serif below the head. The linework is smooth and even, with no shading, and the whole design is shown in a single metallic gold on a plain white background.

Botanical Sugar skull Skull Bride Rose Flower Heart Veil Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow shut the Harrow pass the same evening the bride came up the road on foot. Nobody at the inn knew her. She wore a veil gone grey at the hem and a crown of red roses, though it was November and the hedges were bare, and she asked for one room and a candle. Mistress Oddny, who kept the inn with her two sons, gave her the room over the kitchen, where the chimney held its heat.

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In the morning the bride was sitting at the long table with her hands folded, and when the boys brought her porridge she did not lift the spoon. "I am waiting for my husband," she said. "He went ahead to light the chapel at Scarth." There was no chapel above the pass, only a cairn of grey stones, and Oddny told her so. The bride only smiled. The three small dots at her cheeks and the line of stitching beneath them seemed to pull a little wider.

For nine days the snow kept falling. Each night the bride carried the candle to the window and counted the drifts. On the tenth morning Oddny's younger son, Tam, found a second set of boot prints climbing from the valley, stopping at the cairn, and then nothing at all. He brought back a gold ring lying among the stones, its band worn thin, and set it on the table beside the bride's folded hands.

The bride looked at it for a long time. Then she stood, lifted off the veil, and laid it over the ring. "He always did come back for the small things," she said, and walked out into the white. In spring the thaw showed a line of fallen roses along the pass, and Oddny swept them from the step each morning without asking anyone why.