p. 03 · Wedding prices
Prices and dates
Rands, all in, no hidden kit fee. Every product, every pin and the touch-up pouch are part of the price. Nobody should have to ask for a quote to learn the basics.
The list
What each chair costs
Times are what the chair takes on the morning. I plan your timeline from them, and you can too.
| Service | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The brideEvery bride has a trial first. | ||
| Bride, hair and makeup on the dayYour full look on the wedding morning, built from your chart, with the touch-up pouch handed over. | About 2.5 hours | R4,800 |
| Bridal trial, hair and makeupSix to ten weeks before, by a window. Written face and hair chart within three days. | About 2.5 hours | R1,600 |
| The partyBridesmaids, mothers and the youngest ones. | ||
| Bridesmaid or mother of the bride, one serviceHair or makeup, worked from the same chart as the bride. | 40 min hair, 35 min face | R950 |
| Bridesmaid or mother of the bride, bothHair and makeup together. | About 75 min | R1,750 |
| Flower girls, aged 8 to 12Simple hair only. No makeup. | Hair only | R350 |
| Small ceremoniesCourthouse, garden or beach. Where this business found its feet in 2020. | ||
| Small ceremony, Tuesday to Friday onlyThe bride plus one guest, hair and makeup, with the trial included. | Up to 3 hours on site | R5,900 |
| ExtrasOnly if your morning needs them. | ||
| Early startWhen the first chair has to begin before 06:00. | Before 06:00 | R500 |
| Staying on after the ceremonyTouch-ups through the photographs, wind included. | Per hour | R650an hour |
Measured from the city centre
Travel
Free close in, flat to the Winelands, by the kilometre beyond. Nothing past 120 km.
Your travel fee.
- City, Atlantic Seaboard, Southern and Northern Suburbs, inside 30 kmFree
- Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and PaarlR650 flat
- Anywhere else up to 120 km (West Coast, Helderberg, Overberg, other Winelands towns), every km past the first 30, counted both waysR7 a km
- Further than 120 km from the city centreNot possible
A venue 100 km out is 70 km past the first 30, there and back, so 140 km at R7: R980.
The paperwork, short
Holding a date
One wedding a day, never two, so a held date is held for you alone.
- Deposit
- 30% holds the date. It isn't refundable, but it can be moved once, to a new date within 12 months.
- Balance
- Due 7 days before the wedding.
- Peak Saturdays
- October to March, Saturdays carry a minimum spend of R6,500. In practice that's the bride and two more faces.
- How far ahead
- Bookings open 14 months ahead. Summer Saturdays usually go 8 to 10 months out.
- Trial timing
- Booked 6 to 10 weeks before the wedding, with your chart in writing within 3 days.
Work out your own morning
Faces and timing
Count backwards from when the photographer arrives. The bride is always the second-last chair.
- Bride's hair
- 90 min
- Bride's makeup
- 60 min
- Guest hair
- 40 min
- Guest makeup
- 35 min
Say it's you and four bridesmaids, everyone in both chairs, and I'm working alone. Your 150 minutes plus four times 75 comes to 450 minutes, seven and a half hours. With a photographer arriving at 14:00, the first chair is at 06:30 and I'm setting up at 05:45. Over six faces, Nomsa comes along, two chairs run at once, and the morning gets close to half as long.
Said plainly, with reasons
What I turn down
Most of these I've been asked for more than once. The answer is still no, and here's why.
- The bride on the day without a trial firstThe trial is where I learn what your skin and hair do in daylight. Small ceremony bookings include one, so it never comes up there.
- More than 10 faces at one weddingPast ten, someone gets rushed, and rushed faces are the ones that crease by the speeches.
- Two weddings on the same dayYour morning gets all of me, including the hour after the ceremony if you want it.
- Haircuts, colour, or sourcing and fitting bonded extensionsThat's a salon's craft, not mine. Clip-ins you already own are very welcome.
- Matric dances, shoots and partiesWeddings and ceremonies only. The chart, the timing and the kit are all built for one kind of morning.
- Makeup on children under 8, and anything more than light up to 12Small faces don't need it. Flower girls get simple hair only, and look best looking like themselves.
- Heavy full-coverage airbrush looksIt reads flat in Cape daylight and sits heavy in the summer heat. I build thin, on purpose.
- Any booking in JulyI close for the whole month. My note about it is on the contact page.