Looking for a way to have perfect hair to top off your perfect day? Whether you want it up or down, pinned or natural is entirely up to you. My main suggestion is to make an appointment with your hair stylist to do a few test drives. One of the mistakes I hate about my wedding day simply trusted my hair stylist to visualize what I wanted. And worse, I didn’t even officially know what I wanted. I ended up with a mix of her style and my horrible verbal explanation. In short, I had Prom Hair. Not even, my own high school prom hair, but the kind of hair you have when you’re a junior going to someone else’s prom. After hours of staying under the dryer, there was no way I could change it. I had no choice, but to embrace my goofy hair-do simply because I didn’t have a clear plan arranged.
There are so many styles out there. How do you begin choosing? First, gather wedding magazines and start to clip or mark your ideas early on. Pay attention to what will compliment your face and dress. Once you have narrowed it down to 3 or 4, bring the styles to your hair stylist to see which he or she feels better suite you. Keep in mind your wedding ceremony and wedding reception locations. Tears have been shed over beautiful down-dos that went flat because of humidity or stunning up-dos that couldn’t withstand the forces of nature. Then, try the wedding hair styles out. If you don’t like it articulate it! Ladies, we’ve all been there. We’re sitting in a salon chair watching out hair get mutilated by scissors and we don’t say anything because…well…they’re the expert right. Or we’ve sat as we get some awful color that isn’t anything like what we discussed and paid for it.
Your Wedding day is not the time to settle. It is truly a once in a life time event that can never be re-done. You don’t have to be a bridezilla, but do voice your opinion!
The week before my wedding my then fiancé had perfect hair. It was neither to short nor too long and I loved it. Then the unthinkable happened. His mother begged him to cut it. “Do it for me” she said and being the good son he is, he did. We won’t go into the fact that he let his partially blind (but extremely loving) uncle, who specializes in woman hair have a go at his pre-wedding treads. In the end, he had woman hair. When I say woman hair, I mean just that. Imagine a soccer mom’s short hair-do and you would be imagining my husbands. His side burns were cut all the way past his ears and he had poofy woman bangs. Five years later, we laugh about it all the time, but at the time it was a DISASTER! His groomsmen were even horrified and suggested shaving it off. Today, we don’t have any wedding pictures of the two of us up and I can’t wait for the day we can redo them. So, plan ahead and speak up. That’s my advice.
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