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Another thing I left ’til the very end was my hair and veil situation because one could not be figured out without the other.

I’ve been bookmarking hair inspiration via Delicious for months, and at first glance it looks like I was sort of all over the place…

Liz and Laurie had such a beautiful wedding!

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 From Mrs. Margarita’s hair inspirations

… but actually, all these pics have two things in common—they’re all super easy-breezy looking, and they all involve flowers. So at least I knew where to start.

I decided a long time ago I’d be doing my own hair but left it ’til last weekend to try it out. Turns out I didn’t need any hair accessories at all—just bobby pins and an elastic.

I didn’t make an awesome video like Mrs. Avocado’s because I didn’t know if it would turn out, but I took a few photos. Here’s what I did:

Step 1: Put hair in hot rollers. A bit of hairspray on each piece before you wind it up really helps.

Step 2: Take out rollers and spritz with a bit more hairspray.

Step 3: Shake it out with your fingers. As you can see, my hair is very straight and the curl is already relaxing.

Step 4: On the very good advice of my hair stylist, I clipped the top half of my hair up and created a mini-ponytail underneath that would act as an anchor for all the pins.

Step 5: Gather the pony up and pin it.

Step 6: Un-clip the hair from the top and, taking one section, twist it a bit then pin to the back. Repeat. Sorry, this part was a bit difficult to take photos of so I just took some at the end. Ta-da!

Step 7: MORE HAIRSPRAY! And try it with a flower…

There are some bobby pins showing but luckily I’ll have Mama Sea Breeze’s help to hide those suckers on the actual day. I was pretty pleased with the results—definitely easy breezy and would work GREAT with my veil (up next, I promise).

What do you think? Are you doing your own hair for your wedding too?