Jeanette did a truly stunning job on hair and makeup for me and three of my bridesmaids. I want to start by saying that the quality of her work itself was beautiful. Everyone looke...d truly stunning, and we were genuinely thrilled with the final results. She is clearly talented at what she does, which is why I hired her in the first place.
Unfortunately, there was a massive issue with time management. Daneene and I had a printed schedule and timeline already planned out, but Jeanette went off of that schedule. Instead of following the order we had discussed, she did my friend before me, which caused a huge problem in the flow of the rest of the afternoon.
By the time it was finally my turn for makeup, I only had about 10 minutes before I was supposed to be getting into my dress, and my hair still wasn’t fully finished either. As the bride, that was incredibly stressful and I ended up in absolute tears. While I do think Daneene should have considered sending a second artist to help based on the number of people and services being done, Jeanette also could have avoided much of the issue by simply sticking to the timeline and doing me before my friend as originally planned.
The most disappointing part is that because the schedule got pushed so far behind, we completely missed our pajama photos together. Those had been discussed and planned for weeks and were something I had been looking forward to and excited about for a long time. You only get one wedding day, and losing those moments and memories was heartbreaking. I have pictures of my girls in their PJs without me and when I see those I get furious!
I’m torn because the quality of the beauty work itself was excellent, making our professional photos truly beautiful and definitely adding to the day, but the lack of time management created extreme stress for me on a day in which the only tears coming out of my eyes should have been happy tears and my bridesmaids had to work overtime to put my shoes on my feet and kick people out of the room so Jeanette could focus. It was ridiculous! Jeanette, thank you at least for not rushing so I looked nice but follow the dang schedule you are given please- schedules are for a reason!!