Weddings
Bridal buns, braids and flowers. 24 hairstyles on EveryHairstyle so far.
Weddings bring out a community's most careful hairdressing. Brides, grooms, families and guests dress their hair for the day: jasmine-wrapped buns and jewelled plaits in South Asia, the gele and aso ebi of Yoruba weddings, the traditional shimada under a white hood in Japan, the veil and chignon of a church wedding. Many families hire stylists and book trials weeks ahead.
Styles for the day
Wedding hair has to last many hours, through ceremonies, photographs and dancing, so it is usually set firmly: buns, chignons and French twists held with pins, braids that will not loosen, curls set with heat and spray. Flowers are common: jasmine and rose gajras in South Asia, fresh flowers or a flower crown at many Western weddings. Many styles are built to hold a veil, a dupatta or a headwrap.
Guests and families
At a Nigerian wedding, guests often wear matching aso ebi cloth and tie geles in it, and professional gele tiers are hired. In India, women relatives wear gajras and buns; the groom may wear a turban, the safa or pheta, tied for him by relatives. Sikh grooms wear a turban, often in pink or red. Japanese families attending a Shinto wedding wear kimono with formal hairstyles.
Famous weddings hairstyles
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Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tsunokakushi: Flickr user Photocapy, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Head tie: Dili Osuhor ( Teemages ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- French twist: SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, source
- Gajra: Amarnath, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Chignon: www.GlynLowe.com, CC BY 2.0, source