Kat
My biggest regret: Trusting someone with a shady track record.
“On my wedding day, the hairstylist I’d booked never turned up. He basically disappeared and I never saw him again. He’d been my usual hairdresser up until that point, too. So my mom ended up doing my wedding hair at the eleventh hour.
Thankfully I hadn’t paid a deposit. The hairdresser had previously left his case full of hairspray, bobby pins, brushes and other kit at our place so as to be prepared. He never got in touch to pick that up, either. For all I know, something terrible could have happened to him, though my husband did see him at a later date. He crossed the road and pretended not to have seen my husband.
Looking back, the hairdresser had been chaotic previously and flaked out on a prior trial run, which had left me angry and upset. On the wedding day, we left it to the last minute, just in case he did turn up. Initially, I thought, Oh my god, everything is ruined, I won’t be beautiful. This is a hiccup in the meticulously planned spreadsheet, as I’m a serious planner.
After waiting and waiting my mom said: ‘I’ll make a start now.’ She ended up taking control, which saved me from having to make any decisions and I ended up being quite happy with the plan B result. Things might have been different if I hadn’t felt like a ‘pretty bride’, though. If you ask her, she made the style I had in mind more ‘me’.
In retrospect, it was lovely for my mom to do my hair because my husband and I did a lot of the wedding planning ourselves, so she then ended up having a really important role to play. Don’t trust someone with a shady track record. Do trust your mom.”
