Spinoff of the Wedding Race thread. What time was your ceremony and what time did you start getting ready? I've seen a lot of people with evening weddings saying they were at the salon at 7am for, say, a 5pm ceremony. Or your hair and makeup was finished at 1pm for a 6pm ceremony.
My ceremony is at 6:30. My photographer said we should plan to have hair and makeup finished at the hotel by 4pm, so we have two hours for first look, BP, and close family photos before the ceremony. I think the stylists will be arriving around noon. Everything is within 5 minutes of each other. Am I missing something? Will we be really rushed if we don't start beautifying until noon?
"I'm not a rude bitch. I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."
Re: S/O: Wedding day timeline
6 am: start my hair and makeup
7 am: second stylist shows up and works on 3 BMs hair, FG hair, and 1 BMs makeup (with help of first stylist
12pm: 1st look and bridal party photos
1:00 pm: ceremony
We had NO leftover time between hair/makeup and the first look. I ended up not even eating all day because I thought I would have time in between. Whoops.
Our ceremony started at 6:30 - we had no bridal party so it was only H and I that had to get ready.
9 am - woke up
11:30 am - hair and make up - this took approximately 2 hours just for myself. I also had significant travel time between where we were staying and my salon (45 mins each way - we got married in the middle of nowhere)
2:30 pm - got back to the lakehouse, ate lunch and got dressed
3:30 pm - first look pictures
5:00 pm (ish) - family pictures
6:00 pm - hungout until the ceremony started. Guests started showing up around 6 so I was happy we were done with pictures at that point.
Because it was just me that had to get ready, I didn't feel rushed at all. We actually had a lot of sitting around time once I got back and got dressed.
11:00 am-3:00 pm: hair, makeup, fruit and veggie tray, sandwiches and salad
3:00 pm-3:45 pm: getting dressed and hanging out
3:45 pm-4:00 pm: to to bridal suite and wait for ceremony
4:00 pm: ceremony
Do I need to be thinking in-depth about a timeline yet? We know we're probably starting at 4:00, assuming a 30 minute ceremony, 30 hosted minutes for family pics, which all of our guests are welcome to participate in, 30 hosted minutes for B&G pics, and dinner at 5:30? I think we decided that two hours was a good happy length for us, and then we'd clean up the space and tell everyone that we'd be at X place by nine-ish if they want to come visit?
ETA: I'm six months out right now, have everything plotted for ceremony and reception at FILs' church.
We had five people getting makeup, and four getting hair, with one MUA and one hairdresser. We got to the B&B around 1030, and had a very relaxed morning with mimosas & snacks. The photographer got there around 330 and took the staged pictures of shoes & dresses, etc. The girls got dressed as they got ready, and I got dressed just before four. My dad and brother showed up right at four, and then we went to the church for our first look at 415.
We did all of our pictures before hand, and got the ones with parents and bridal party out of the way within an hour. They all went back to my IL's house for pizza, and J and I went and took some pictures just with the two of us, for probably another hour. We were back to the house by 6, relaxed for a bit and had something to eat, and then were at the church for the 7pm service.