Hair Trial: The Sequel

Still no pictures, but a little bird told me that we should be getting them this afternoon!! In the meantime, here's another hair horror story for ya!

After a pretty awful hair trial at The Hair Artists, I took your advice, hive, and scheduled an emergency hair trial a week before the wedding with a very good friend of my mother in law.

In spite of all her fervent assurances that I would LOVE Karla, I was a little nervous. What can I say? It was definitely a case of “once bitten, twice shy.”

The day of the dreaded hair appointment, I got horribly lost on the way to the salon. Needless to say, this just frazzled me out even more, and by the time I finally made it to The Color Bar, I was seriously considering just throwing my hair up in a ponytail on my wedding day.

Then I met Karla. And she was AWESOME! She’s a down-to-earth, no-nonsense woman, and she immediately put me at ease. She actually LISTENED to what I had to say, and a mere thirty minutes later I was sporting a very pretty waterfall braid that looked great with my unintentional ombre and some curls.

Wanna see?

Personal photo. Hairstyle by Karla at The Color Bar

Can you tell that I LOVE it?

Personal photo.

Seriously, Georgia bees, if you need your hair done, see Karla at the Color Bar in Marietta!

I made sure to book her right then and there to do my wedding hair and reminded myself to cancel my other appointment at The Hair Butchers. I mean Artists. The Hair Artists. Ahem.

Procrastinator that I am, of course, I kinda put off canceling my appointment until the very last minute. The day before the wedding, I finally decided to give them a call. Just as I was dialing their number, though, THEY called ME! What wonderful timing, right?

Before I could politely let them know that I wouldn’t need their services the next day, the receptionist informed me that the hairstylist I had booked THREE WEEKS PRIOR had gone on vacation. 

 

Mind. Blown.

“Would you like to reschedule?” she chirped, seemingly oblivious to the fact that I was silently FUMING on the other end of the line.

Mr. Unicorn, who had heard the whole conversation, quickly snatched the phone out of my hand before things got nasty. I really wish he hadn’t, though. There was so much that I wanted to say, starting with something like this: “Sure. Let me reschedule MY ENTIRE WEDDING so I can RE-BOOK my wedding hair appointment with YOUR INCOMPETENT AND IRRESPONSIBLE hairstylist. Good plan, guys!”

I mean, who does that??? Who, in their right mind, calls a bride the day before her wedding to ask if she’d like to reschedule her wedding hair appointment because her hairstylist “decided to go on vacation” for Labor Day Weekend????? Can you imagine if I’d decided to stick with The Hair Artists and hadn’t booked someone else? I would have been SOL on the day of the wedding.

Moral of the story: always listen to the hive!

Any other hair-raisingly bad vendor experiences out there? Did you manage to find a suitable alternative in time for the wedding, or did you have to make do without?

The Final Countdown

I’m still waiting on pictures, hive. It’s only been a matter of days since the wedding, and I know what a long, tedious process it is to edit pictures, so I’m trying my hardest to be patient; it’s proving to be more difficult than I thought. It’s taking all my self-control NOT to harass the bejesus out of my photographer. I feel like the little kid in the back seat of a car on a family road trip: “Are we there yet? How about now? When will we get there? Are we there yet?”

Except that in my case it’s more like, “Are they edited yet? How about now? When will we get pictures? Are they edited yet?”

I guess I could try to keep my mind off the pictures entirely and tell you all about The Final Countdown.

 

I was eerily calm before the wedding…until I looked at a calendar and realized that it was a mere FIVE DAYS AWAY. That’s when I started freakin’ out just a little bit.

I felt like I still had soooo many last minute loose ends to tie up. The seating chart, for example, was a complete disaster, I still hadn’t finished the stupid yarn letters I’d started ages ago, and I started gluing programs like a mad woman. I’m pretty sure I killed my fair share of brain cells with all the fumes from the spray adhesive. Maybe I should have used it in a well-ventilated area, like the can suggested. Hmmm.

Personal photo. POTENT stuff, hive!

Originally, I wanted to create my version of the ever-popular paddle-fan program.

Together, Mr. Unicorn and I designed our pretty, pretty programs in Adobe Illustrator.

Personal photo. 

After printing those suckers out, I folded them in half and started gluing them to our popsicle-stick-things. I was a little disappointed in how the first one came out, to be honest. I used spray adhesive to keep the program together and tacky glue to keep the program attached to the stick. Unfortunately, the tacky glue caused a weird rippling effect in the cardstock.

Rather than stress myself out to find a solution to the paddle-fan dilemma, I decided that I would simply make my paddle-fan programs without a paddle. Because, hive, I just didn’t care anymore.

I’m not the only one that was busy with last-minute crafts.

My wonderful FMIL was sweet enough to help me out. She made all the bouquets for my bridesmaids and me…OUT OF COFFEE FILTERS. I shit thee not.

Why, yes, I DO have the best MIL in the world. -Personal photo.

 

She also made us a super cute (and SUPER HUGE) burlap bunting that reads, “Mazel ‘Tov, Ya’ll!” I wish I had taken a picture of it, but I forgot. You’ll just have to wait for the pro pics, hive.

I’ll be honest with ya. I crafted right up to the last second. The night before the wedding, I was frantically handwriting guests’ names on seating cards. Not that it mattered, because my seating chart turned out to be completely irrelevant. More on that little fiasco later, though.

 

How did you feel in the days leading up to your wedding, hive? Were you totally zen? Or did you have a lot of loose ends driving you crazy?

 

Showered with Love

Hive, the Unicorns are MARRIEEEED!!! It will still be a while before we get our pro pics and video, though, so while we anxiously wait for those, I’ll find other stuff to talk about. Like our shower!

Mr. Unicorn and I weren’t really expecting a shower, especially with the wedding date coming at us like a freight train. But we found a super colorful invitation in our stack of mail informing us that Mr. U's mother's neighbors would be throwing us a shower.  

The shower was two weeks before the wedding, and Mr. U finally got around to uploading the pictures. This is the part where I shut up and let the photos do the talking.

One of my bridesmaids. I gotta admit that I took this picture because I was fascinated that her chin was reflected in the TV.

 

I have to say that, while the food was delicious and the conversation was scintillating, my favorite part was opening presents!

This is where my bridesmaid took over the camera and captured a lot of interesting shots of Mr. Unicorn and me.

I got really excited about this cheese grater, apparently.

 

I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing in this shot. Feel free to come up with a caption for it and leave it in the comments section.

 

Awww. Mr. U’s trying to gimme a peck on the cheek. How sweet.

 

 

Did any of you have a shower? How was it?

*All photos personal unless otherwise noted.

Finally!

Well, hive, we're just hours away from the Unicorn wedding. It's funny, though; when I first started planning this wedding in January, it felt like it was an eternity away. These last few weeks, however, have flown by in a whirlwind of hot glue, coffee filters, and yarn.

I woke up this morning to beautiful blue skies and puffy white clouds; I guess the weather decided to cooperate after all!

Unsurprisingly, I woke up an hour before my alarm was set to go off. Even so, I'm surprisingly calm, if somewhat sleep-deprived. All my bridesmaids made it into town safely, and the last couple days have been wonderful.

I wish I could tell you all about the bachelorette party and the rehearsal dinner and all the craziness and shenanigans of this past week, but this bride needs to hightail it to her hair salon! I guess you'll just have to wait for the recaps!

Hive, I'm so close now!!! Today I marry my really, really, ridiculously good-looking best friend. I'll see you on the other side as MRS. Unicorn!!!! Wish me luck!

Much love,

Miss Unicorn