A wedding-hair timeline for a Hamptons wedding
Bridal
A wedding-hair timeline
Working back from the day, so nothing is decided in a hurry and nothing new is tried the week of.
Hamptons weddings run from May to October and the Saturdays go first, sometimes a year out. The timeline below is what we walk every bride through. It works for a wedding on a lawn in Sagaponack and for one in the city with a rehearsal dinner out here.
Working back from the day
The timeline
- Six months or more out: hold the date. Tell us the date, the venue, and roughly how many people need hair or makeup. That is all we need to reserve the morning. Send the wedding details form and a stylist who does bridal work will call you.
- Three to four months out: the color plan. If you are growing, changing or brightening your color, this is when it starts, so it can settle over two appointments rather than one. It is also when to begin treatments if the hair needs strengthening for an updo.
- Six to eight weeks out: the trial. An hour in the chair, styled exactly as it will be on the day. Bring photos, the veil or headpiece if you have it, and a picture of the dress neckline. Leave with the look decided and photographed from every angle. If you are having makeup, trial it the same day so the two are seen together.
- Six weeks out: book the party. Once the trial has set the look, we schedule bridesmaids, mothers and anyone else. Count heads: an updo is about an hour each, a blowout 30 to 60 minutes, makeup about 45 minutes. That count decides the start time and whether we come to you.
- Two weeks out: final color and a trim. The last color appointment, a glaze for shine, and the ends tidied. Nothing dramatic. Two weeks gives the color time to soften and the cut time to relax.
- The week of: leave it alone. No new products, no new treatments, no cut. Deep condition once, early in the week. Your stylist will tell you whether to wash the day before or the morning of; it depends on the hair and the style.
- The day: on time and unhurried. We arrive or you arrive with the schedule already set from the head count. The bride goes last so the style is freshest for the ceremony. Bring a button-front shirt.
The numbers
What it costs, so you can plan
These are the salon prices; on-site work is quoted with the details form once we know the venue and the head count.
- Creative up-do or formal styling about 1 hour$175 & up
- Blowout, below shoulder 30 to 60 min$95 & up
- Makeup application about 45 min$175
- Makeup, eyes only about 30 min$85
- Individual lashes, temporary about 30 min$40
- Glaze, the week before about 30 min$80 & up
Trials are the same price as the service. Full pricing is on the services page.
Bring to the trial
Five things that make the hour count
- Photos of the looks you like
- Three or four, not thirty. And one of a look you do not like; that tells us as much.
- The veil or headpiece
- Or a photo of it. Where it sits changes the whole shape of an updo.
- A picture of the dress
- The neckline and the back decide whether the hair goes up or down more than anything else.
- Your earrings
- Statement earrings and a low chignon fight each other. Better to find that out now.
- The schedule for the day
- Ceremony time, photo time, and where everyone is getting ready. We build the morning backward from the first photo.
Bridgehampton, New York
Dates go first. Hold yours.
Send the details and a bridal stylist will call to talk it through. There is no charge to hold a date while we do.