When you're starting to plan your wedding day, one of the first things you should sit down and figure out is your 'beauty schedule' for the day. If you don't know where to start, here's some of our thoughts on making sure hair and makeup enhance your timeline instead of make it more hectic!

1. Plan for all hair/makeup to be complete 2-3 hours prior to the ceremony start time.
If you're having makeup done off-site, plan 3 hours. If you're having the makeup artist on location, plan for everyone to be finished 2 hours before.

2. Plan 1.5 hours per person.
Some might need more, some might need less, but this is good average to start with. 1 hour is NOT enough time and will end up putting you behind schedule. Start counting backwards from the time you need everyone to be ready and go from there. Yes, you might have to start on hair/makeup early in the day. See the next tip for a solution!

3. Choose a salon/beauty professional who works with a team.
This is especially important if you have a large group of ladies who need their hair and makeup done. Choosing to work with an entire salon or a group of beauty artists helps things move faster as they can work on multiple ladies at one time.

4. Bride's finishing touches are last.
When an on-location makeup artist is at the wedding, we like to have the bride's finishing touches photographed to include in the wedding album. Having the bride ready to go, except perhaps eyelash application and lipstick, lets us get those photos we love!

5. Consider keeping a beauty artist around until after the ceremony.
It's becoming more common to have a hairstyle or makeup switch done during cocktail hour, along with any necessary touchups.

Bonus Tip:
Not related to making appointments, but super important! Plan time for makeup touchups during the day. Pack a small kit with powder, concealer, and lipstick and pass it to your most responsible bridesmaid. For a 6:30 ceremony start time, your makeup will probably have been completed at 4:30. If you stay at your reception until 10:30, that means your makeup will have been on for 6 hours. A few touchups will keep you looking just as beautiful as ever!

Several months ago we discovered The Lumineers and fell in love. How can you not hear this song and start dancing?

Something new we've started doing this year are styled engagement shoots. We love it when details make a photo shoot or a wedding day more unique and personal, and we love shooting in an editorial style, so styled engagement shoots came about naturally for us and are something that we absolutely adore.

Our first styled engagement was Sarah and Andrew's outdoor/fishing themed shoot. For Sarah and Andrew's shoot, we took the time to learn a lot of details about their love story, from when they first started dating all the way to their engagement. One thing that kept coming up in all of their stories was their love for the outdoors. Several consultations, Pinterest boards, and meetings later, we had the shoot planned!

On our styled engagement shoots we work with a stylist to plan the whole event, from hair and makeup ideas, to outfit ideas, to locations, activities, and details. For this shoot, we worked with our former bride, the amazingly creative Katie Hollis out of Austin. Sarah and Andrew kept saying that they really felt like they were out on a date! We love making this special!

Here's a moodboard with images from Sarah and Andrew's styled engagement shoot earlier this summer.

As we said, we loved shooting this in an editorial style. You can imagine how happy we were when we found out this shoot was going to be featured on a national wedding blog for inspiration for other couples.

Since that shoot, our mind is full of ideas for our next styled engagement shoots! Can't wait!