Wedding Beauty Timeline: Planning Your Perfect Day

Nothing about wedding beauty should be decided in the final fortnight. Here is the schedule that keeps it calm.

Six months out

• Start any prescription skincare — it needs three cycles to settle.
• Book your hair and makeup pros and lock the trial date.
• Begin monthly facials.

Six weeks out

Trial with the exact accessories and a photo test under daylight and flash. Colour hair now, not later.

Morning of

Allow 45 minutes per person for hair, 45 for makeup, and a 30-minute buffer before photographs. Your pro travels to you, so plan the room with a window and a mirror.