Your wedding morning, handled.

Bridal makeup is $230 for the wedding day, and bridal hair starts at $180. Hair is the figure that moves: length, how structured the style is and how thick your hair is all come into it, so treat $180 as a starting point and see the hair page, where how it is worked out is set out properly. The trial is booked separately and costs the same again, $230 for makeup and from $180 for hair, because it is a full session rather than a quick preview. Anyone getting ready with you is $170 for makeup and $160 for hair each, a flower girl is $80, and a décolleté add-on is $30. Everything sits together on the full price list. Travel is worked out by distance and confirmed in writing before you book, so the figure you agree to is the figure you pay.

You are not obliged to, and I do take brides without one. I recommend it, and the reason is time rather than doubt: the trial is the only session with no clock running, so we can test how products behave on your own skin, try a direction, look at it, and change it if it is not you. Whatever we settle on is written down and repeated on the day. Bring a photo of the dress, your veil or hair pieces if you have them, and any looks you have saved, including the ones you saved to say no to.

For the bride I set aside an hour and a half, and I do not book it shorter. Yours is the face that will be photographed all day and from every angle, and that hour and a half is what lets me give it proper attention instead of working against a clock. Everyone else getting ready needs somewhere between 40 minutes and an hour and a half, depending on what their own look asks for, with hair added on top of that. The exact timing for your morning is worked out with you personally, because it depends on how many people are getting ready, in what order, and what time you need to be in the car. That schedule is agreed before the day, not improvised on it.

From 5am when the morning genuinely calls for it. That is not how most weddings start and it is not what I would suggest for the sake of it, but if your ceremony is early or your venue is an hour out of town, beginning in the dark is simply what the day needs, and it is not a problem. Tell me in the enquiry what time you need me finished, and we build the morning backwards from that rather than forwards from whenever it would be pleasant to start. Getting into the dress and getting yourselves to the ceremony are not inside my timing, so count those separately when you choose the hour.

Either. Most weddings I come to you, at the venue, the hotel room or the house, anywhere across Melbourne and well past it, and how that works is set out on the mobile makeup page. The travel fee is worked out by distance and confirmed before you book. For distant locations, including the Mornington Peninsula, most bookings are three or four services. If you are on your own and want me there anyway, write to me. That one is quoted for you alone, on the hours the morning takes rather than on the number of faces. Destination weddings work the same way, interstate or overseas: send the date and the travel is quoted with it. If you would rather come to me, the studio is in Middle Park and studio prices are lower.

Yes, and on most wedding days that is exactly what happens: the bride, the bridesmaids, the mothers, sometimes a flower girl. Each person needs a booking of their own, but you do not have to sit and make them one by one. Send me the full list with what each person wants and I will set them all up for you. For larger groups I work with assistants, so the number of people I can take on a morning is bigger than my calendar alone suggests.

Always, and both mothers are welcome. They book as guests, at guest pricing, and in practice they are the easiest part of the morning to schedule. What they ask for is almost always the same thing, to look like themselves rather than made up on the day their child gets married, and how that is built is explained on the page about makeup for mature skin.

Both, and the hair is arranged as part of the same booking rather than being a second supplier for you to find. Hair is priced less simply than makeup: length, how structured the style is and how thick your hair is all come into it, so a soft wave and an intricate updo on the same head are not the same figure. The hair page is where that is explained properly, with the categories and what pushes a price up. Booking both together is the practical reason most brides do it this way: one arrival time, one schedule, and one person to talk to when the morning shifts by twenty minutes, as it usually does.