Wedding Guest Hairstyle

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Can you help me decide on a hairstyle for a wedding I'm going to next month?

I've got very light blonde hair and its cut into a blunt lob (a bit like Ellie Goulding's)

It's wavy naturally but goes quite curly with salt spray and also can be straightened. I tend to leave it wavy and put rollers in the roots, which works great for a night out but after a few hours it gets so knotty, frizzy and just...huge. I've had short hair for probably the last 10 years and this is the longest it's been in that time, so I'm just not used to taming it.

I use a good conditioner and a leave-in oil after I wash it so its always shiny but the frizz is still there.

I have to travel 2 hours to the wedding so I will be doing my hair very early in the morning and it will need to last all day. Should I put it up? Half up? Or find a way to have it down without frizzing? Help please!

I put in big velcro rollers and travel in them. It just leaves it voluminous. Either that or I get a blow dry first thing.

I'm travelling by train so rollers while travelling not an option! And too early for blow dry before I go. I have Velcro rollers that I sleep in so I could do that the night before, but it only ever looks nice for a few hours before getting tangled!

Do you have a wand/thin GHDs?

I would just use a wand to create loose unstructured waves. I'm not a fan of overly 'done' hair on guests or brides for that matter.

Wash hair the day before. Use texturizing spray and then a light spritz of hairspray for hold.

I've got thin straighteners i could make a loose curl with. I'm the same and don't like perfectly preened hair.

Would you put the texturising spray in while its wet the night before, or just before curling or once the hair is curled?

Your hair sounds similar to mine. I twist sections of it around my fingers when it's wet (so my head looks like it's all ringlet curls) and leave it to dry. It's generally a little frizzy at first, but I just shake out the curls, smooth the top a bit, then put the curls back in again by twisting in sections like I did the first time (sounds laborious, only takes 5 mins!). For usual days I put some stuff in my hair to hold the curl a bit more, then I might put a bit of hairspray on when I get to work. I get lots of compliments on my curls! If I just left it to dry naturally it would be a wavy mess.....

When I went to a wedding in the summer, I put some mousse AND sea salt spray in when my hair was wet, put the curls in, dried them with a hairdryer with my head upside down whilst scrunching the curls to get more 'oomph' then stuck some hairspray on top. And, ta da! Bigger curls than usual that lasted all day. I just stuck a pretty thing in my hair to dress it up a bit.

Thanks amelia, I'm gonna give that a go tonight!