Wedding Day Timeline = Huge Stress!!! Can you please give me any suggestions?

Thank you all for your helpful advice! My 1 MOH is now coming to my Parents house to do our hair and makeup artists will be set up there. instead of having 5 Girls going to salon 2 at 9am, I'm going to scatter 2 at 1 time and 2 at another time so that there is a much smaller chance that the makeup artist can ding me with the $25 fee for an empty makeup chair per 15 min. I'm going to put a post in my Wedding party group and say I need you & you to start makeup at 8am and so on.

The best thing that works for me is writing out the whole day, sometimes down to the half hour of what’s going to happen. This way you can see any gaps, or where you are having people overlapped etc.
As for people complaining about what time they have to be at a certain place. It’s your day! If they don’t like it then they can worry about their own hair and makeup!

If you haven't already, I would write out your schedule (in pencil or on a computer- so you can make lots of edits as needed!) and literally fill the names of your party into each time slot. Re-work as many time as needed until everyone gets what they need done!

Another suggestion - would you be able to have 1 or both of your hair stylists come to your parents' house? This definitely cuts out some travel time and let's you keep eyes on the situation and help keep things on schedule! It may even be possible for your makeup artist to work with the hair stylist on the same person at the same time.


As for your makeup artists' 15 min/$25 fee, that seems crazy! To me, it's taking advantage of a bride's busy/hectic morning and gouging the opportunity to make a higher profit. One possibility could be to go with another MUA if you're still able to. If not, you will need all or most of your girls' hair done by a set time so that you can shorten the window of time you need your MUA for and just have 1 person after another in the makeup chair constantly.

As for your bridesmaid that needs her beauty rest and refuses to wake up early...tell her she's on her own to do her hair and makeup then if she's not willing to wake up for her appt. I'm sorry, but grab a coffee and get over it. You as a bride shouldn't have to cater to something like this. I know my bridesmaids have an early morning and a lot of time will be spent waiting for everyone to get hair and makeup done but I plan to have brunch foods and mimosas out and maybe some fun activities for everyone to keep busy!

Good luck with everything! I don't know if I've offered any help or just a long winded response, but I understand your stress and hope it all works out for you! Better to be thinking of these things now than on the morning of your wedding!