Weddingbee Blog

Our day started out with the girls and I waking up and heading to breakfast on the top floor of our hotel. The room had been upgraded to some super-duper level of service with fancy breakfast included. Then we headed around the corner to the hair salon at a respectable time (9AM). This is the same place Cinnamon Buns always gets his hair cut, and where I have my hair cut too…every few years.

I had gone for my trial about a week before the wedding, and decided to get both my makeup and hair done there. They were also going to do the bridesmaids’ hair, my mum’s hair and nails, and Cinnamon Buns’ mum’s makeup. We were planning on being there for about 3 hours, but didn’t want the photographers to get too bored being there with us, so we had them show up about halfway through the looong appointment.

I knew I wanted my hair up, I wanted some volume/texture on the top so it wasn’t just like I pulled my hair back in my usual bun, and I wanted some curls showing. Jordan did an excellent job! And before you all start asking, because so many people did on the day—yes that is all my own hair. I have a lot of hair. Well, not anymore, but I did then.

The trial helped us both because I have some ‘wispies’ at my hairline that only like going in certain directions, so Jordan knew where to part my hair for the real deal. On trial day they were a little wild because the part was a little off (I have no idea where my part is because I always used to pull my hair straight back into a bun).

I think I texted Cinnamon Buns at this point…working out logistics for something you’ll see in the next post.

Jordan did both my bridesmaids’ hair as well. Here she’s putting in the blue book-paper flowers on bobby pins that I made. We brought a whole shoebox of them to the salon. And by we, I mean we got to the salon, realized we’d forgotten them, and sent Cinnamaid K (above) back to the hotel. Luckily, the salon and the hotel are only a block apart, so it wasn’t far to go.

Then I got my face painted with nice non-glittery eye shadows. She had tried out some glitter shadows at the trial, and I felt like I was 16 again, so this time we went matte, with a bit of shimmer. There’s a big difference between glitter and shimmer, let me tell you!

The we put my veil on, in a handy little extra-teased spot to keep it in. It blew out in the one-block walk back to the hotel after this, but it gave us all a good idea of where it should sit. Calgary is a windy city and there isn’t much to do about it.

Then the moment I’d been waiting for-putting on the fanciest dress I will ever wear! (Watters Lasara) After I unzipped it, I had the realization of ‘How do I get into this without getting naked in front of everyone?’ Everyone being my mum, my bridesmaids, and Lisa the photographer. As you can see, there are bra cups in the dress, and while I would be OK with bra and  undies in front of people, topless and undies is different.

Mum came to the rescue and told me to slip into it in the bathroom, then come out and be done up.

Just like that!

My ‘borroweds’ were mum’s pearl studs and pearl bracelet.

While this was going on, the girls were getting ready, doing their own make up.

We had a zipping-everyone-up-party!

Mum put my shoes on me because all of a sudden I couldn’t see my feet any more.

Lisa took advantage of the sun coming in the window for a few portraits. The sheer window curtains mean you can’t see the apartment blocks and train lines that are out there!

Seriously, Lisa must have had some sort of magic lens, because I am only 5’3″, and I swear I’m not standing on an apple box or anything under that dress!

With that, we were dressed and ready for our first look. We were a little behind schedule, but we’d planned on first-looking at 1PM, I think we gave the guys a call when we got back from the salon and told them to push it until 1:30pm. Everyone else was meeting us at the hotel, so they just waited. We purposely built in a lot of cushion into our timing, so while we were behind schedule, it wasn’t a huge worry. Do this if you can for your own wedding!

(Photo by my Uncle Peter)

How tight was your morning-of schedule?

Unless otherwise noted, all photos in this post are by Fotograffika.

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