Most event mornings do not run late because someone was slow. They run late because nobody wrote the order down.
A wedding morning is several services, more than one person, and a fixed moment when the photographer starts working. The way to keep it calm is to write a sequence in advance and set the finish time to the first photograph rather than to the ceremony.
The deadline is not the ceremony. It is whenever getting-ready photographs or portraits begin, which is earlier. Fix that time first, then place everything before it, and you will find out immediately whether the morning is realistic.
Both have to happen and they cannot happen at once on the same person. The order depends on the styling, on how many people are being done, and on who is arriving when. Have that conversation with the artist and the stylist in advance rather than sorting it out on the morning.
A party of several people is not one appointment. Ask how the artist wants the group sequenced, whether more than one person is working, and who needs to be finished first because of dressing or travel. Booking a whole group as an event is handled at habitslounge.com.
Something always takes longer than planned. Buffer built into the middle of the schedule absorbs it; buffer at the end disappears into the first delay. Plan to be finished before you need to be finished.
Cutting, coloring and any treatment done to the hair belongs well before the event, not the week of it, and it is the salon's work rather than the artist's — see salonhabit.com. Styling on the day is a different thing from changing the hair.
Whether everyone travels to a studio or the artist comes to a house, hotel or venue changes the whole schedule. Services performed where you are getting ready are arranged through habitmobile.com, and that decision should be made before the running order is written.
Tell us when it is, where it is and what you are thinking about, and we will match you with someone who will explain what it involves before you book.
Get Matched With an ArtistA date and a rough idea is plenty. We will follow up before anything is booked.