Weddingbee Blog

I luurrve my hairstylist. Whenever I leave the salon after paying her a visit, I strut back to my car. I feel that good. Sometimes it’s even a swagger. I find excuses to continue my strut past my car and down the street, to the bank or the bookstore, just to let the wind catch my hair and so that drivers stopped at lights can admire its newfound sheen and gloss.

My hairstylist is awesome in a Top-Model kinda way. She always looks amazingly chic and trendy and put-together, and she gets me, you know? She’s chatty and I’m slightly taciturn in the chair (I love spacing out and relaxing while getting mah hair did) but it works. It just works. I’ve been going to her through two salons and for at least seven years. She has seen me through highlights, lowlights, blondeness (more blondeness than any Portuguese girl should have, in retrospect), shoulder-length dos, red highlights, growing it out, chopping it off, my Season 4 Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw phase, my Victoria Beckham phase, my Katie Holmes phase, and finally now, my “I want to grow out my bob but my hair doesn’t grow” phase.

A contender for wedding day tresses?

In fact, my loyalty to my stylist is so fierce that the thought of not having her do my wedding hair appeared on the “CON” side of the “Should we get married out of state?” list. But alas, we are getting married out of state, and to that end, the thought of hunting down a salon and stylist seemed impossibly daunting.

So I thought, as I sometimes do, What would Diddy do? Diddy wouldn’t hunt around for some new stylist; he’s fly in his trusted one, on a jet stocked with Petron. Okay. I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask, although I figured I’d keep the jet and Petron part quiet… you know, in case that part doesn’t pan out.

On my side? The wedding is a mere hour and forty minutes’ drive, and my stylist loves visiting Narragansett. Score! So, while she washed my hair and I stared up at the ceiling, I popped the question, and she replied with an enthusiastic YES, absolutely! Hurrah! She gave me her email address for figuring the deets, but I’m already relieved to have this bit of hair business out of the way.

I must admit, I feel a little like the female version of a hustler (diva) for wanting to bring my personal stylist with me to our wedding.

Is anyone else going to slightly ridiculous lengths for their hair or makeup?