Weddingbee Blog

We all know about the legendary Post Wedding Chop (PWC). A sizable chunk of ladies grow their locks long before the wedding, and just when they are so sick of hair and can’t stand it anymore, the honeymoon is over and they get to chop it all off! It must be satisfying to finally get rid of it all. Like if Mr. Sprinkle decided to shave his beard (NEVER!) and let me do the shaving. That kind of satisfying.

Anyway… I didn’t really try to grow my hair out (although it did get fairly long and wild towards the end) I did work hard at keeping it one color. Usually I change my hair color or style every two months, but in the year before the wedding I just kept going blonder and blonder, until I hit the platinum shade I really wanted to try out. I absolutely loved being a blonde, but it was terribly hard to keep up. My roots looked horrific at five weeks, and my hair started to get kinda brittle. Many times over the course of our engagement I walked into my salon and discussed dying my hair black instead, or red, or magenta, or something, but I am glad I was able to keep it blonde as long as I did. Clearly, hair is serious business around here.

A few months after the wedding I finally made the big change.

Here is the before:

(photo: Hazelnut Photography)

(photo: Hazelnut Photography)

The after:

(Bonus: you get to see what my hair looks like when it isn’t professionally styled! I don’t even own a blow dryer or straightener or um, that “product” stuff. And alarmingly enough, this is what my face looks like when it isn’t professionally made up. )

(Also, I like to wear necklaces as headbands)

(This last photo was taken while climbing huge boulders in Joshua Tree National Park, which, coincidentally, would make an amazing place to honeymoon in the winter or spring!)

It didn’t take me too long to get used to the new hairdo, but my students were HORRIFIED! The first day I walked into class I was met with total silence. Like when the record player skids and everyone stops dancing at the awesome ’80s dance party? That was what it was like when I walked into circle time at preschool. Most students declared they didn’t like it, and after lunch one boy sweetly said “OK, Teacher Sprinkle, you can put your real hair back on now!” I also got a few versions of, “you don’t look like a princess anymore,” which just goes to show you that no matter how hard I try to dispel the idea, little girls might always think that princesses are perfect and have to be blonde (sigh).

The best part of my new look (other than no roots!) is that I am doing a TTD session in a few weeks, and the new hair will give the shots a completely different style. I can’t wait to see what I will look like as a brunette bride!

Anyone else take the PWC to the next level, PWCC (Post Wedding Color Change!)?