Fresh and Relaxed Makeup at Post Wedding Activities

For many couples, the wedding is not over once the reception is. Depending on the location of the wedding and the couple’s relationship with their families, often there are other activities that follow the main event. If this is the case for your special day, you will want to make sure your makeup looks great for you to spend the morning with well wishers. Keep in mind that for this day your makeup should be less dramatic and more relaxed.  You should still go for a beautiful look, and feel free to be daring with a bit of color.

One of the most common events is a breakfast the day following the wedding. This is a time for everyone to touch base with each other, check in on how everyone did and perhaps share memories of the night before. This breakfast activity can be as simple or elaborate as you like, but just remember that there will be memorable pictures involved. Be sure to put your best bridal makeup face forward!

Some families like to have the bride and groom open presents the day after the wedding. There are many who believe the bride and groom are required to open presents in the presence of family for good luck. Remember, opening gifts doesn’t have to a dry activity. You can add some silly fun or incorporate a game. How about starting with the smallest and moving to the largest gifts? Or working in the reverse order? You might even create a game. Everyone has to guess what’s in each gift prior to its being opened. (Of course, people can’t guess on their on gifts.) Someone can be in charge of keeping a tally and whoever gets the most right, wins a small prize.

The women in the bride’s family might want to help her pack up her gown (or send it to the dry cleaners) and preserve her wedding bouquet. This can easily be done at home and the women (particularly those who are crafty) might want to get started on preserving the flowers as well.

In the crafty light, some brides might want to plan a scrapbook party for after the wedding. You won’t have photos back from the photographer, but you can scrapbook many other wedding events, such as pre-events like manicures, various showers and the candid photos take by wedding guests the night before. More than being focused on the photos, this activity gives the women a chance to reflect on the events of the wedding, laugh at all the fun times and journal to preserve memories. It will also help the bride feel as if she’s partly in control of all those photos before she leaves on her honeymoon and takes yet more photos. She will also get a chance to remember how beautiful she looked in her bridal makeup!

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