Weddingbee Blog

Now that I’ve got The Dress I’m feeling some pressure to finalize my wedding day look, and I’d like that to start with my hair. As y’all know, I have relatively long curly/wavy hair. What you may not know is that I wear it down almost every day and I don’t tend to prefer pictures of me where my hair is up. Obviously that means I plan to wear it down for the wedding, but I want it to look more ’special’ than just my everyday hairstyle.

And then, a few days ago, the most amazing hair inspiration appeared to me in a completely unsuspecting and fortuitous moment. While Mr. FW and I were engaged in a marathon session of wedding crafting, we were watching a fabulous little show called Weeds. All of a sudden I happened to notice that Mary-Louise Parker and I share a similar hair texture. Not only that, but her character Nancy Botwin and I appear to share a mutual love of the half up/half down hairstyle. And the particular look that caught my eye was this beauty.

{I could only get a blurry capture of the back.}

screen captures from Weeds Season 5

It’s somewhat difficult to tell from the pictures, but she’s wearing a thin sparkly headband and it looks like in the back her hair is secured with a loose twist. I was so smitten with this look that I quickly clicked through other episodes to see if I could find anything else that appealed to me as a possible wedding ’do.

{Sorry for the harsh light/contrast - dark hair and dark background is a tough picture to capture.}

screen captures from Weeds Season 5

I’m not-so-secretly hoping that the first style looks as smashing on me as it does on her. Just in case, I plan to bring those other two images with me to a hair trial so I can try out a few different options. Who knew I’d be so giddy to mimic the styling of a suburban pot dealer…

Have you (intentionally or not) turned to Hollywood to inspire your wedding day hair? If so, who’s your celebrity hair twin?