Planning Your Wedding Hairstyle

When planning your hairstyle for your wedding day, follow these guidelines:

1. Don’t attempt anything too different from your usual style… you don’t want your future husband / partner wondering who the hell they walked down the aisle with!
2. Don’t get a ‘permanent’ styling the day before your wedding.I’m sure you’ve heard the horror stories…

   A friend of my sister-in-law cried many tears the day before her wedding when she got a perm, which turned out to be a total disaster. Does the term a ‘poodle with rabies’ give you any idea of how bad it was? She ended up having to wear a french braid on her wedding day. This upset her all the more as she is very self-conscious of her ears and was hoping to keep them hidden under a mass of curls.

   Then of course there’s the stories of colour that simply didn’t take – the blonde that turned a silvery pink, the red that stained a forehead and one ear, and so on… Maybe some that you’ve heard are urban legends, but it’s my guess that most are true.

3. If you’re getting a permanent styling, whether it be colour, cut or curl, do it about a week out. 

   This gives you plenty of time to go to Plan B if something disastrous does take place. Obviously don’t go too much further out than that time frame, because if your hair grows quickly you might be sporting a monaro stripe by your wedding day with new growth after colouring!

4. Organise a practice run on how you’ll wear your hair.Once again, do this a week out from your wedding day.

   And so very importantly, make sure the person who practices on your hair (hopefully successfully!) is the same person who will do your hair on your wedding day. Be very firm on this. There is nothing so disappointing as arriving at the hairdressers only to find the person who made your hair look amazing a week ago, isn’t working that day, or is booked by someone else. You’d be amazed at how many different ways someone can misinterpret your hairstyle request!!!

5. Match your hairstyle with your dressThis is an obvious point, but one so often overlooked: 20′s style dress matches well with a bob, ‘antique’ matches height with lots of tendrils and flowers, a free flowing dress works perfectly with the natural look of long, unpinned hair, and so on…