How to Plan Bridal Hair and Makeup for a Large Wedding Party | WDP Ep 65

🎧 Listen to learn:

• How to plan bridal hair and makeup for a large wedding party
• Wedding day hair and makeup timeline tips to avoid running late
• How to create a calm and organized wedding morning
• Why communication with your bridal beauty team matters
• How destination wedding hair and makeup teams operate

In this episode of Wedding Day Podcast, host Sonja Babich, CEO of Iron Diamond Media, and co-host Alexis Sanabria, Publisher of California Wedding Day, sit down with Aly Rose, founder of Temecula-based bridal hair and makeup company Aly Rose Beauty. Recorded in San Diego, the conversation explores how Aly built a 45-artist team that executes nearly 450 weddings per year while maintaining a highly organized, client-focused experience.

Aly shares how her early passion for makeup evolved into a corporate career in sales leadership before she made the leap to full-time entrepreneurship after surviving cancer and navigating life-altering adversity. She explains how structure, systems and over-communication became the backbone of her bridal beauty company, allowing her team to specialize in large bridal parties and complex wedding day timelines.

Together, the group discusses wedding morning scheduling, preventing hair and makeup from delaying the timeline, matching artists to brides based on personality and style and expanding into destination weddings across the country. The episode closes with Aly’s forward-looking vision for education, coaching and future growth, reinforcing her belief that organization, resilience and joy can coexist in a thriving wedding day beauty business.