11 Tips for Picking a Wedding Hairstyle Youll Love Forever [Video]

Our hair is deeply connected to our identity and can intensely affect our self-confidence. Add a major life event that is (often) a highly photographed and (sometimes) a highly expensive affair, and the pressure of picking your wedding hairstyle can feel very overwhelming.

Deciding if your hair will be up or down is first and foremost a personal preference, but there is also a long list of factors that come into play: your dress, your venue, the time of year, the texture and length of your hair, whether or not hair accessories will be adorning your wedding hairstyle. As someone planning a wedding, I was surprised to find myself debating even further minutiae—slicked-back bun or messy chignon—long after my initial hair trial where I had landed on something in between that felt very quintessentially “bridal”: a low knot with volumeat the crown and face-framing tendrils. I thought I had it all figured out, only to find myself staring …