Brides doing bridesmaid's hair?

[ameliasmama89]

What are your thoughts on Brides doing the bridesmaid's hair? There are three adult bridesmaid's plus 5 little ones (ages from just a year old till 8).

My view is: The bride should not be worried about getting other people ready. Bridesmaids are there to help the Bride get ready.. She will not have time on her own wedding day to get all 8 bridesmaids hair do's done, plus get herself ready.
It's not every day we get to dress up all fancy and have hair done fancy.

My solution: Get a professional to do the three adults hair. Very simple hairdo's for little ones. clips/hair clips that match the theme.

Adult 2: Deadset on the BRIDE doing all 8! Wont budge.

Buy adult 2 a cap in wedding colours and tell her to stfu.

Honestly what a self-obsessed div - can you get the chance to swap her conditioner and shampoo over so whatever happens she's got a greasy bonce on the the day?

If there is a day when lots of photos are going to be taken of you, you should not ask anyone to do your hair unless

a - they are a professional
and
b - you are paying them
and
c - they are not doing anything else.

OR
d - they volunteer unprompted

All of this faff about hair seems silly to me. Do the bridesmaids usually have crap hair every day? I assume not. So can't they do something reasonable with their hair on this day? Or is the bride insisting that they do something complicated that they would not normally do? (seems like not, in this case)

I can understand why a bride might want professionally-done hair - she'll probably be wearing an unusual hair accessory - but I don't really see why bridesmaids would need/want it.

The bride should be enjoying her pampering and taking her time on her wedding day. Doing so many hairstyles is definitely counter to that. It would be a firm 'no' from me.

What an unreasonable woman! How selfish to expect the BRIDE to stress herself out and rush around on her wedding day doing other peoples hair!

The bride should be enjoying her pampering and/or panicing that her hair won't go right and/or necking champagne and/or wondering whether she should put another coat of nail varnish on (answer:NO) and/or sending bridesmaids off on errands (find tit tape, check if aunty Dot has arrived) and/or doing some distracting activity that she finds relaxing.

Unless doing hair is her distracty relaxy activity, she should not be doing anyone else's hair. Even if it is her distracty relaxy activity, she shouldn't be doing hair for anyone who is likely to complain about the process or the results (as this person seems likely to).

I got married earlier in the year and had planned to do my own hair and a simple style for the 4 bridesmaids. But I was persuaded to get someone in to do it and I can honestly say ut was the best thing I did!
I had a relaxing morning had my hair amd makeup done without worrying about anyone else!
I would definitely recommend getting a hairdresser!

MIL needs to tell SIL to grow up. If I was op I would have got her in a head lock and told her what's what

Talk to the other bridesmaids and suggest that if they want there hair doing they should all pay for it them selfs . SIL needs to be told she won't be being serviced by the bride of her big day fgs! Just say no one will be looking at her any way!

Reminds me if a wedding u went to where the brides older single sister turned up in a tight shite one shoulders dress and danced 'aggressively' all night! Ha ha

I went to , dam fat fingers !

It's up to the bride.

Does the bride realise that she doesn't have to have the diva as her bridesmaid?
I suspect though that because she has caved at asking her to be bridesmaid, she will also be doing hair.

"Adult 2 said she doesn't want anyone doing her hair apart from the bride 'cause she gets grumpy when her hair is pulled'."

She's really not an adult. At all.

Thanks again for all your posts. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking it's crazy for bride to be doing hair. We have tried to come to compromise with Adult 2 over buying our own hair spray (due to different hairs texturesky and types) and little slides for hair so we still be matching but she grumbled about that too. There's no pleasing some people. Bridesmaid shoes are now also an issue due to adult 2.
Hope it all works out in the end though. it's not my wedding day and it's stressful enough.

If I was the bride, adult 2 would be getting an 80's monstrosity on her head for the day.