Wedding-morning hair,
where the morning is.

It is quoted on a call rather than off a list, because four things change the figure and none of them is on a price list: the date, the venue, how many heads there are and what time the ceremony is. Ring 07714 198743 with those four and you will get a firm number, in writing, before anything is booked.

Because a wedding is not one service, it is a morning. A bride plus two for an afternoon ceremony at home and a bride plus six for an eleven o'clock at a venue twenty minutes away are different jobs, and adding them up off a list gets one of them wrong. A five-minute phone call gets it right.

The date, the venue, the ceremony time and roughly how many people are having their hair done. If you know whether make-up is being done as well, and whether everyone is getting ready in one place, say so — both change the running order. Nothing else is needed to give you a figure.

Summer Saturdays go nine to eighteen months out, and that is the national norm rather than a sales line — August alone accounts for about one wedding in seven in England and Wales, and Saturdays take four ceremonies in ten. A quieter month or a midweek date can often be booked at a few weeks' notice.

Yes, and less for the look than for the morning. The trial is how a stylist finds out how your hair actually behaves and how long it genuinely takes on your head — which is what the entire running order is built from. Without one, the timings on the day are guesswork, and it is the timings that go wrong at weddings, not the hair.

Six weeks to four months before, and always after the dress and the veil are settled — the neckline dictates the hair more than anything else does. Any closer than six weeks and there is no room left to change your mind.

Worth asking of anybody you speak to, because most charge twice before the wedding — a non-refundable fee to hold the date, and then the trial on top of it. Charlotte will explain exactly how it works here on the call, and it is simpler than that.

Printed inspiration photos rather than a phone, the veil or hairpiece if you have it, any extensions you plan to wear, and a picture of the dress. Come with hair washed and blow-dried the night before — clean, dry, no product, and not straightened.

Say so in the room. There is usually time for a second style in the same session, because hair will take about two before it stops co-operating. If you go away, think about it and change your mind, a second trial is completely normal and not a failure. What does not work is deciding on the morning.

The night before, then blow-dry it properly. Day-old hair holds pins; freshly washed hair slides straight out of them. If your hair goes greasy overnight, wash it in the morning instead — but dry it completely. Damp hair kills the schedule.

Roughly 75 to 90 minutes for the bride and 35 to 45 minutes for each member of the party, plus about 15 minutes to set up on arrival and 20 minutes at the end for touch-ups and the veil.

It is worked backwards, not forwards. Fix the ceremony time, subtract the drive to the venue, leave 45 to 60 minutes clear for the dress, the flowers, the cars and the photographs, then stack the heads back from there. A bride plus four for a one o'clock ceremony usually means arriving around ten to seven in the morning.

The clean rule: if the running order means starting before seven in the morning, book a second pair of hands. One stylist handles a bride plus three comfortably for an afternoon ceremony. A bride plus five, or any ceremony before noon, and a second stylist stops being a luxury — it buys roughly eighty minutes back out of everyone's morning.

Ask this of anyone you book, because not everyone does — some pack up the moment the last head is finished. Here the veil and the final touch-ups are the last thing done, deliberately, so the finish is there for the photographs rather than an hour old by the time the cars come.

Yes, and they often help with volume — but buy them, colour-match them and have them cut and blended before the trial, not the week before the wedding. Clip-ins are usually the right answer if you do not wear extensions normally. For fine or shorter hair, padding is often the cheaper fix and nobody can tell.

Last, as one of the finishing touches. And buy it after the trial, not before, so it can be chosen to suit the style rather than the other way round. Lightweight veils anchor cleanly; heavy pieces drag a style down and hide it.

An updo with a proper foundation will take wind, rain, hugging and a full evening of dancing. Loose waves in drizzle are a different proposition — and that is exactly the sort of thing to decide at the trial rather than discover at four o'clock. You will be left with grips and hairspray either way.

Charlotte does. With a team-based supplier the person at your trial is not always the person on the day, which is worth asking. Here it is the same pair of hands throughout, and a second stylist is only added when the timings genuinely need one.

Either. Most brides get ready at home or at the venue, and both work — a dining chair by a window with a socket within reach is all that is needed. Venues around Mold and the villages are all inside the normal round: Soughton Hall and its Coach House, Highfield Hall, Northop Hall Country House, Beaufort Park, Pentrehobyn, Theatr Clwyd and the register office at Llwynegrin Hall.

Yes, and that one is straightforward — hair up and occasion styling is a standard bookable service at £60, on the cuts and styling page, and you can book it online like any other appointment. Weddings are the ones that need a conversation. Chester holds two Ladies Days a year plus a music weekend and an autumn festival, and prom season runs May to July, so both get busy in the same way a wedding morning does.

No. It is genuinely appreciated and never expected — and a review or a recommendation is worth considerably more. The fifteen-to-twenty-per-cent figure that circulates on some UK sites is imported American etiquette and is not the norm here.