Not happy with hair trial - short hair

I wore no makeup at all on my wedding day - I never wear any and didn't feel comfortable doing something so different for my wedding. Huge uproar any time I told anyone, people telling me I'd look terrible, that I'd be washed out in all the photos, that I'd always regret it. Well I looked like an extra-happy version of me in all the pictures I've seen, I didn't look washed out at all and I've never once regretted it. Funny thing is, a few people who hadn't heard about the no-makeup thing have commented on my 'lovely, natural makeup' and wanted to know who did it. Lesson learned: people mostly see what they expect to see - they assumed I would have had my makeup professionally done and so 'saw' professional makeup . So if you usually wear makeup and are confident applying it, I'd just do whatever you normally do when going on a nice day out, and you'll be fine.

I did get my hair 'professionally' done, but it was done by my regular hairdresser and she charged me a whole £15! I wanted it up (mine is just below shoulder length and very fly-away, so having it loose wasn't an option) so I just bought a sparkly hair-comb to dress it up a bit, and had her do a very simple bun. So if you want to save money and look more like you, why not do something close to your daily hairstyle and just dress it up a bit with a sparkly hair accessory? Or maybe see if your local hairdresser will do you a basic style. I get the whole thing about 'it's your wedding day so you want it to be extra-special' but...you also want to look like you! And if you're wearing a trad wedding dress anyway, that's enough 'extra special' to be going on with - you don't need an OTT hairstyle on top of it! (And I hear you about that first style looking messy - I thought you were showing us the work in progress, not a finished style!)