Hair dressers/stylists/hair pro's. Pleeeease can someone help me with my wedding hair!?

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Please help!

I'm getting married next week.

I have boob-length, straight, thick, shiny hair.

I'm doing my hair myself (clearly i didn't think this through properly!) and wanted pretty much exactly this.
blogg.veckorevyn.com/hiilen/2013/02/01/get-the-look-glamorous-side-curls/
Curls, swept to the side and pinned, easy.
Nope.

I cannot, whatever i try, secure my hair with bobby pins angry It's just too thick. I did it earlier, went to pick ds up from school and by the time i got back the pins had slid half way down my hair!! Even with hair spray!

I'm using Trevor Sorbie pins that have a rubbery coating on them (supposedly to stop them from sliding out). I've tried weaving them in and turning them back on themselves, inserting them curvy side down, crisscrossing them (which just splits the pins). I have no idea what to try now!

Any clever people out there that can help?

I can't see the link but wedding hair is usually back combed somewhere. Perhaps try back combing the under layers and smoothing over the top as that will give the pins more to grip too?

Crossing the pins should work, wavy side down...

Or book a bridal hair stylist quick!!

Could you maybe do a tiny hidden braid in the under layers? Don't need to braid all the way to the ends, just far enough down to give the Bobby pins something to grip.

I second a braid. I have all the hair in all the land and I can't do this style without a French braid or twist. It looks quite nice too if you don't hide it, right from behind your ear stopping at the nape of the neck.

Put your pins in the gaps of the braid so they're hidden and put absolutely millions in, sprayed with hairspray before they go. If your pins are splitting, you're maybe crossing them wrong. The pins need to slide inside one another, not over the top of the first one.