GREAT ADVICE FROM 2,000+ beach weddings’ experience: THIS cannot be emphasized enough: Nothing ruins your lovely wedding photos (SEE PICS BELOW!) like wind-whipped hairdos flapping in your eyes and mouthbecause:
LOOSE HAIR absolutely DOES flop in your eyes and mouth, always! Secure your hair with the following advice, how-to videos, & tips:
DO NOT WEAR LONG HAIR LOOSE and down–speaking from over 2,000 weddings — DOZENS of our brides & guests regret ignoring this! This is a PROFESSIONAL advising you here – secure your hair away from your eyes with the hundreds of styles & tools available for it (look on YouTube)!
Loose hairdos are not romantic and flowy-looking at all. It whips around and appears as a large, tangled, crazy, hairy “squid” covering your face in pics OR a curtain over your face that no one can see through.
Frowning, clawing, spitting, frowning more, SCOWLing faces in your wedding photos are bad news.
And with flyaway guests’ hairdos: ALL your group shots HAVE to face in the same direction, same background, no creativity, no variations and some GREAT poses are impossible… cuz loose ‘dos must face the wind only. Seriously… Margo’s photos totally rock… don’t cut yourself off from that! Secure the hair!
ADVICE: secure hair OUT OF EYES AND MOUTH. NO tendrils at all! You two, all guests, men, kids, women, AND short hair too! Secure hairstyles with TONS and LOTS stiff gel or hairspray (a little ‘spritz’ is useless), AND use braids, clips, head bands, ponytail, pins, flowers, crowns, hats, barrettes or combs… secure it OUT OF EYES AND MOUTH.
Short hairdos will get bald spots and angry bird tufts / cowlicks in beach wind…use stiff sprays!
NO TENDRILS! that is the worst thing for this… they swing straight into your eyes and mouth nonstop, by design. It’s not cute or soft or romantic squinting and spitting for 45 minutes IN THE WIND OUTSIDE (not the same as indoors looking in your mirror). See pics below!
Here are 3 easy, pretty, HOW-TO videos on controlling your hair around the face. See 3 MORE fast, cool, how-to videos on our Facebook linked here: facebook.com/Beachpeopleweddings
MORE TIPS TO HELP YOU:
REMEMBER, it is WHIPPING WINDY at the beach by the water 95% of the time! See pics below! If the forecast says wind speed is above 9 mph, then fix your ‘do tightly which means:
BASIC: at least wear a nice headband with TONS and TONS of hairspray. NO tendrils at all – not even a little bit.
BETTER: use bobby pins, combs, flowers, braids at your temples AND hairspray a lot. NO tendrils! Eating hair is not cute nor pretty.
BEST for DIY: HEAVY layers of STIFF strong hairspray, plus pins, plus combs or barrettes, a tiara, flowers, plus gel and lots MORE HAIRSPRAY! NO TENDRILS at all! Think: they are meant to swing into your eyes and mouth by design. No good on windy beach–see proof pics below!
BEST OF ALL: hire a pro stylist who has experience with beach weddings (not all of them do!), PLUS insist on tons of hairspray.
This is true for men’s hair and short-haired ladies too! Wind means a silly-looking ‘bird’ tufts stick up, or a large bald spot or chunk missing on his head. Looks clownish, childish.
USE LOTS OF HAIRSPRAY! TONS and TONS! Your hair should feel VERY crunchy and uber stiff (shampoo will remove it later).
And Another Hot Tip — Jewelry: WEAR your biggest and SHINY JEWELRY! This is a wedding…its one time only and Special…and these are your once-in-a-lifetime wedding photo Portraits. So, borrow some pearls, or a “big” necklace, wear shinier, nicer earrings, AND that a nice bracelet. Strapless dresses look VERY “empty” or bland without some bling at neckline. So wear your showy bling! REALLY!Even a simple string of costume pearls is great.
Men too, wear all your bling, earrings, bracelets, etc. Empty earring lobe holes aren’t pretty.
