I’ve sat in that chair to get my hair done since I was 12…
The morning of the wedding we had SEVEN girls who needed to get their hair done by ONE hairdresser: the woman who’d been doing my hair for the everyday and all-important occassions since I was a pre-teen, Laura. She was AMAZING. Incredible as always, and fit us all in under 4.5 hours. Given that Alex’s maid-of-honor and bridesmaid are earlier risers (even though Alex isn’t!), I elected them to go first into the salon at 8 am. Me and my girls followed at 9:30am, with coffee.
Hair done separately and getting ready separately were more a result of time juggling than any desire to ‘stay apart’ for the morning, and we hadn’t even thought about a ‘first look’ (very unlike our UK wedding where the ‘first look’ was an absolute feature!). Our getting-ready-morning was mostly need based:
- we needed to get 7 hair-dos done,
- 9 women needed to get dressed and made-up,
- photos of both bridal groups needed to be taken along with bridal shots and whole group shots–
- all before we needed to get back to the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds for our pre-ceremony reception of apple cider and pumpkin bread at 2pm! Phew!
Alex’s maid-of-honor, Corinne, in curlers…
Our photographer Wyatt Olson met Alex back at the hotel to take some getting ready shots before whisking her and her ladies off to Hunter Orchard from some bridal shots. Back at the salon, our officiant (my best friend from school) was doing my mom’s make-up, my maid-of-honor was making last minute red-buttons-on-wire to put in my hair, and my bridesmaid Kate was finishing my knit rainbow shawl! The level of activity stresses me out just writing about it…
Minor additions: our bridal party buttons…
Once the hair & make-up were complete, each of us got dressed in the salon bathroom–oh so glamorous!–and arranged with Alex and Wyatt to meet them in a parking lot halfway between the Hunter Orchard and our next photo location, the Lava Rock Air (old dairy farm of a family friend). In Siskiyou Count, there’s a lot of open space! Me and my girls got there first so we had a few extra minutes to get ready before Alex and her gang drove up…
I flagged them down with my button bouquet!
Even though we’d done this whole getting-hitched thing before, I found myself–those minutes waiting for Alex–being nervous and excited all over again. We could see their cars come onto the overpass before they got to us and I stood in the middle of the parking lot to flag them down. From my vantage point, I could just catch Alex’s reaction to seeing me all done up for the first time. She was beaming.
Our ‘first-look’…
With Wyatt in another car and time a-wasting, we didn’t have any formal ‘first-look’ photos as such, but instead all piled back into the cars to head for the diary ranch and our group shots with Mt. Shasta in the background…
All photos by the bridal party
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