Weddingbee Blog

Initially, I made a hair appointment at a very fancy/trendy (meaning expensive) Syracuse salon for my wedding-day coiffure. The earliest appointment that I could get was at 9am. I took it, but it made me a little nervous because the salon is a good 15 minute drive from my hotel, not accounting for any traffic and/or parking delays, and our ceremony is at 11:30 am. I would still need to get dressed and get my make up on after the hair appointment, so it was kind of cutting it close. Then I talked to my grandmother and she mentioned that her hairdresser, Jennifer, offered to come out to Syracuse the morning of the wedding to do my grandma’s hair. My grandma is totally one of those old ladies that goes to the beauty parlor every week to get her hair “set,” whatever that means, and she has been going to this particular hairdresser for the last 13 years.

I thought to myself “hmm… Jennifer did my hair for my high school prom and it was cute, maybe she could just do my hair at the hotel, too!” I had my gramms talk to her about and she said that would be no problem since she was already coming out to the hotel to do my grandma’s hair. Yay! So she agreed to come to my room around 8 - 8:30 am. This makes everything so much easier for me now. Not to mention, she is also much cheaper than the original salon I booked… by a long-shot!

Here is a picture of me from my prom for your viewing pleasure. Don’t laugh! We all had our “weird” stages, right? Anyway, I like my hair though and I think Jen did a good job on it back then. She is really good at doing exactly what you tell her to do, so as long as I have a good idea of what I want she will be able to nail it. In these pictures, it’s quite a bit bigger on top than I would wear it now (and it’s dyed black) but the overall idea is still kind of the same; part-up, part-down with some ringlet curls. Sorry that the quality of these pics is so bad. My scanner is crappy.

Okay — so I had my first, and possibly only, hair trial with Jennifer when I was home a couple of weeks ago. This first picture was taken in the salon right after she did it. The curls are a little bit tighter than I want them and I forgot to have her take any pictures from the front or the side, but I like the look of it overall.

The rest of these pictures were taken about 8-9 hours later. She didn’t put any product or hairspray in my hair since it was just the trial and I was outside for a while so it got blown around in the wind quite a bit. It held up pretty well, though, and I like the curls a lot more when they are a little more relaxed liked this.

I don’t want to have quite as much hair pulled up on the sides for the actual wedding day.

It’s a little messy in this next picture and there isn’t a whole lot happening in the front. I told her I want to have a few ringlets or something hanging down and maybe a little more volume around the top.

This isn’t exactly what I want for my real bridal hair, but I think she has the right idea. I might try to squeeze in one more trial with her the week before the wedding if I can. She wouldn’t let me pay her anything for this appointment, though, so I will make sure she takes my money if she does another trial.

So what do you ladies (and possibly gents) think of this style? How are you planning on wearing your hair?