Adventures in Bridal Land

This weekend I braved the brutal cold and attended a bridal show at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. I recently moved back to Massachusetts and have no connection to the beauty industry here. Since I spent my entire weekends in Washington DC doing hair and makeup for mostly weddings, I am feeling extremely out of touch! I convinced my friend, Deirdre, who is getting into wedding planning to come with me to the show to check things out.  (I secretly also wanted to have a Sunday Funday in the Seaport area of Boston that I’ve heard my friends here talking about).

 

So here we are, two single girls, wandering around a bridal show… people asking us which one of us was the bride and or if we wanted to enter a raffle to win things like: a night’s stay at a hotel from a wedding venue, a free bridal photography shoot, or a bridal birdhouse from a real estate company.. Needless to say it got a little awkward explaining to people that neither of us were getting married.

The first thing we did when we got there… went and got some free cake from a bakery booth. (Deirdre also makes wedding cakes so we were scoping out the competition and critiquing).  The venue was great! There was a band and a DJ, there was a fashion show and a whole room of vendors. I was surprised at how small the show was and how lacking in diversity the vendors were. The majority of the vendors were photographers and wedding venues.

There was one salon present. ONE SALON!! I may be a bit biased but I thought wedding day hair and makeup was extremely important! The salon that was there had a whole team of people there and looks like they have a lot of experience doing weddings. They had a little demonstration going on at their booth doing all the hair and makeup for the fashion show models.  I’m not sure if they had some kind of deal with the organizers that they be the only salon if they did the hair and makeup for the show but it’s a little unfair to the brides to run an event that way. They expect to come to these shows to see their options.. Hair and makeup is definitely not one-size or one-wallet fits all.

Besides those observations, I loved the atmosphere of the bridal show. So much excitement! The band and DJ were really fun! I met some really great people from all different businesses that I wasn’t expecting. This is definitely something I want to be involved with in the future whether it’s as a makeup artist or as an Arbonne representative. Next time I’ll take some photos for you of the events I attend. I wasn’t sure what the photo taking etiquette was at one of these things!

 

Andrea Alaownis
Arbonne Independent Consultant
Makeup Artist

 

 

 

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