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The Full Wedding Weekend: Welcome Party to Farewell Brunch, Styled

Three days, three occasions, one calendar — the styling math of the modern wedding weekend

May 21, 2025

The Palm Beach wedding has quietly grown from a day into a weekend — welcome party Thursday, rehearsal dinner Friday, the wedding itself Saturday, farewell brunch Sunday — and each occasion comes with its own hair question. I've written about the rehearsal dinner and the second-day bride individually; this is the itinerary view, because brides now ask for the whole weekend planned at once. Here's the honest math.

The occasions, ranked by styling need: the wedding needs no ranking. The rehearsal dinner is the weekend's second-most-photographed event — polished waves or a soft updo, done properly, because those dinner photographs outlast the dinner. The welcome party is the easy one — the beachiest, loosest occasion of the weekend, best served by a good blowout finished to hold. And the farewell brunch is the second-day style I wrote the whole guide about: yesterday's waves revived, not redone.

The calendar, honestly: the weekend's styling is a sequence, not three unrelated mornings. The wedding-week blowout set Thursday becomes Friday's updo foundation; the rehearsal-dinner waves sleep into the wedding's day-before wash; and the farewell brunch is the wedding style's second life. Planned as one sequence, the weekend costs fewer hours and photographs better at every stop.

What this studio books for a weekend: brides most often combine the rehearsal-dinner styling with their wedding booking — one conversation, one calendar, one standard of finish across every occasion. Party members add the occasions they're photographed at; everything is priced the same way, $225 per service, and the wedding morning itself scales with the second artist automatically at seven or more services.

The host's note: the parents' weekend is its own itinerary — the mother-of-the-bride guide covers the wedding; her welcome-party and brunch styles deserve the same chair, and usually the same glass of champagne in it.

One weekend, one bride, every occasion. Tell me the whole weekend in your inquiry — every service is in our instant pricing tool.

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Paige is the bridal and event hair artist behind Majestic Hair Bespoke, serving Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Jupiter, and the greater Palm Beach County area. Book your wedding or event hair and makeup .