💍 How to Plan Your Wedding Hair and Makeup Timeline | Grand Rapids Bridal Beauty Guide
Your wedding day is one of the most photographed, emotional, and unforgettable days of your life—and when it comes to your look, timing is everything. As Grand Rapids’ go-to bridal beauty team, we at Chasing Vanity Salon & Medi Spa have helped hundreds of brides look and feel their absolute best.
One of the top questions we get?
“When should I book everything for hair, makeup, and beauty prep?”
Here’s your ultimate timeline to keep you glowing, stress-free, and 100% photo-ready from every angle.
9–12 Months Before: Lock In Your Beauty Team & Start Planning Your Glow
Once you book your venue, secure your bridal hair and makeup team ASAP. Popular dates fill up quickly—and you want time for trials and prep.
This is also the perfect time to begin your full bridal beauty blueprint, which includes:
Booking your bridal glam team for hair and makeup
Creating a custom timeline for skin, brows, body sculpting, and injectables
Planning key beauty milestones to avoid last-minute stress
✅ Pro Tip: Our exclusive Bridal Blueprinting™ service maps out every step for you—from your first facial to your final lip touch-up kit. It’s bridal beauty, strategized.
Our beautiful wedding boutique inside Chasing Vanity Salon.
6–9 Months Before: Begin Medi Spa Treatments & Injectables Planning
This window is ideal for longer-term skin and body prep. If you're considering Botox, filler, or body sculpting, now’s the time to start.
Injectables (like Botox or lip filler): Plan your first session 6 months out, with a touch-up 4–6 weeks before the wedding
Body sculpting or toning treatments (like Evolve, Morpheus, or EmSculpt): Begin a treatment series now for best results by the big day
Laser hair removal: Start your series now for smoother skin
Skincare treatments: Begin monthly facials or corrective treatments for breakouts, texture, or pigmentation
4–6 Months Before: Book Permanent Brows or Lashes
Want to skip penciling in brows on your honeymoon? This is the sweet spot for:
Nano brows (includes healing time + touch-up session)
Lash lift or extensions if you want enhanced lashes without mascara
Brow lamination or tinting for shape and definition
2–3 Months Before: Bridal Hair & Makeup Trial
Your trial appointment is where we test your full bridal glam look—including updos, makeup style, lashes, and even how it pairs with your dress and accessories.
We’ll adjust every detail until it feels effortlessly you. Plus, we’ll finalize your wedding day timeline, get you camera-ready, and add finishing touches to your Bridal Blueprint.
30 Days Before: Final Glow Appointments
This is your week to relax and soak it in. Let us pamper you with:
A custom glow facial or dermaplane treatment
Botox/filler touch-up (if needed)
Brow shaping, lash lift, or tan
Final body sculpting or skin-tightening session
A calming moment to recharge in our spa before your big day
Wedding Day: Let Us Handle Everything
Our team arrives calm, prepared, and ready to make your morning smooth and joyful. Whether we glam you up in our private bridal suite or travel to your location, we bring all the magic—and zero stress.
You’ll step into your dress glowing from the inside out.
👰 Ready to Book Your Bridal Glam?
Chasing Vanity is now booking weddings for 2025 & 2026. Spots fill quickly—reserve your date and start your Bridal Blueprint today!
👉 Book Your Bridal Consultation
👉 Join the Bridal Blueprint Waitlist
📍 Serving Grand Rapids & West Michigan Brides
We offer bridal hair, makeup, and spa prep for weddings in Grand Rapids, Holland, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Traverse City, and throughout West Michigan. On-location or in-salon—your choice!
✨ Your Dream Blonde Starts Here: Custom Blonding in Grand Rapids, MI
Teasy Lights, Balayage, Babylights + Beyond at Chasing Vanity Salon
Here at Chasing Vanity Salon in Grand Rapids, blonding is more than just lightening your hair—it's about creating the look you've been dreaming of with techniques that are customized to you.
From teasy lights to balayage, foils, root stretching, and babylights, no two blonding services are ever exactly the same—and that’s on purpose.
🎯 We Don’t Guess—We Map.
Every blonding journey starts with a consultation where we map out your goals.
What’s your inspo photo?
How much brightness do you want?
How often do you want to maintain it?
These questions help us decide exactly which techniques will bring your look to life—while keeping your hair healthy and low-stress to maintain.
✨ Let’s Break Down the Blonding Techniques
🖌️ Teasy Lights
Our go-to for a natural, blended blonde. We lightly backcomb the hair before applying lightener in foils, giving you a soft grow-out and less maintenance. Perfect for a lived-in, beachy blonde.
🎨 Balayage
A hand-painted technique that creates soft, sun-kissed dimension. We love it for clients who want that effortless, just-got-back-from-vacation kind of glow.
📦 Foils
Traditional foils give maximum lift and precision. Great for higher contrast blondes, full transformations, or if you’re after a really bright blonde.
🌫️ Root Stretch / Shadow Root
This technique blends your natural color down into the blonde, softening the grow-out and giving your hair extra depth and richness. It’s also one of our best tricks for low-maintenance upkeep.
🌟 Babylights
Super-fine highlights that mimic natural hair lightening from the sun. These are perfect for soft brightness around the face or all-over glow without bold contrast.
💁♀️ What Makes Our Blonding Different?
We’re not just placing foils and sending you out the door. We’re thinking about:
Face shape and skin tone
Your maintenance goals
Your current color, damage level, and hair texture
Longevity and grow-out strategy
This is where our education and expertise come in. We know how to combine techniques to give you a blonde that looks effortless—but was created with intention.
You might come in thinking you need balayage, but after our consult, we might recommend a mix of teasy lights + root shadow + babylights to get you that soft, dimensional blend you actually want.
💛 Ready to Love Your Blonde?
Whether you’re going brighter, softer, cooler, or bolder—we’d love to map out your blonding journey with you.
Book a consultation and let’s build the blonde of your dreams—together.