Don’t fake it on your wedding day.
What a brilliant time to get married in the UK. An English Summer, complete with heatwave and heavy showers, fantastic food, including locally produced strawberries, and home made wine. You can’t beat a Great British Wedding. Guests always look stunning during the summer months, keen to show off their summer tans, the ladies arrive bronzed, buffed and waxed, manicured and pedicured and smelling devine. The men, all groomed and gorgeous with an ear out for the cricket/football scores.
With weddings abroad being so popular, it is nice to see weddings taking place in the UK, making the most of the fantastic architecture and romance of the old churches, stunning hotels and registry office gardens. The summer flowers are beyond compare at this time of year too. Infact, all in all, you can not beat a British Wedding on a glorious summer day, but a word of warning, not many venues have air conditioning, and the result of our warm and sticky weather can have unpleasant side effects. We had reports from recent heatwave weddings of guests passing out due to heat exhaustion, violent headaches after guests exposed to long periods of time in the sun, linen dresses clinging to all the wrong places, as well as the usual smells and stickiness associated with the hot weather. One of the most talked about complaints was make-up sliding off in the heat. So it pays to have a consultation with a make-up artist to get the best advice as to what to do to avoid smudged mascara and eye shadow, and foundation slippage (that does sound serious).
If I were to give one top tip for a successful summer bridal look, it would be ‘Don’t fake tan it’ or if you absolutely have too, get it done early. All too often on swelteringly hot days, the fake tan rubs off from the inside of your arms onto the outside of the dress, (on damp areas shall we say) and the result can be horrendous! Take it from me, brown streaks coming from your armpits isn’t a good look for any bride, and once they start, you are stuck with them all day. So please be careful and don’t overdo the fake tan. It has affected many brides recently, and those photo’s will be around for a long time.
Have a great day whatever the weather, wherever you choose to tie the knot, and if the weather isn’t perfect, it can only spoil your day if you let it.
Enjoy it all
Sue xx