I’m sure I’m not the only bride that suffers from moments of irrational sensitivity, but boy do I feel bad when it happens. One thing I want to get crossed off my list is my appointments for my bridal hair and makeup and trial run. I emailed our hotel wedding planner asking if she can make the appointment and she tells me that she could make the appointment for me and charge it to the master account along with other wedding expenses. However if she does that I would have to pay the additional 22% (service fees and taxes) that they add to everything. She said instead, I would be better off to call them directly to make the appointment secured with my credit card. (She couldn’t take my credit card and make that appointment for me.)

Well that managed to set me off in a bit of a tizzy. I thought it should be an easy thing for her to make a call and secure the appointment and then let me pay the spa directly when I get there. The prospect of having to to call them frustrated me because I can’t make an international calls through my cell phone or through work. (Would you believe I am 11 weeks away from the wedding have have not yet made a single phone call to Aruba? They’ve called me but I haven’t called down there yet.) So I get online to purchase a phone card and find myself waiting for them to ‘verify’ the account before I can use it.

So here I am steaming and totally lose sight of what should have been obvious. The wedding planner was actually doing me a great service by making a suggestion that could save us money! And the simple solution was to ask her to pass my email address and phone number to the person that would make the appointment. Early yesterday morning the salon manager had already called (a call I missed), and today I receive a very kind email follow up from her! It turns out this is not as simple as ‘making an appointment’. She actually wants to get an idea of what I want – already wants to see photos, and wants to make sure we can find time for me to make it into the salon for a ‘free consultation‘ a day or two before the wedding. (I’m sure there will be costs involved with a full trial but at least they want to make time to meet with me before the wedding day.)

Anyway – I totally feel like an idiot and am now really looking forward to working with the salon. I don’t have the appointment or costs yet, but definitely have a much better attitude. I haven’t even thought much about what I want to do with my hair (though it will be easier to pick a style knowing it needs to be up). I hadn’t given it much thought because I don’t have a veil yet. But now I’m thinking maybe it makes sense to pick the hair before the veil? So far I like the picture I included in this post. It’s from the Knot. And I’m also wondering if I should do a hair test run at home with my stylist who knows my hair and bring those photos with me.