You’ve got questions…

General FAQs

  • When you’re booking White Carpet Bride, you aren’t just booking hair and makeup. Yes, our team is full of amazing talent but most of all, they’re full of heart. They’re kind, empathetic and fun. We genuinely care and we work together with you and your best people to not only enhance your natural gorgeousness but also create a calm, easy, light and bright atmosphere during your getting ready time. We can’t wait to get you White Carpet Ready!

  • 1- Design the package that works best for your party size on our Inquiry page.

    2- We will email you and let you know our availability! We’ll send you the contract and invoice.

    3- Sign the contract and pay the $200 retainer.

    4- Sit back and relax, knowing that you are going to be SO well taken care of!

  • For brides that want to go ahead and make sure they will be a White Carpet Bride on their wedding day, we require a non-refundable $200 retainer fee and a signed contract. The remaining balance is due 30 days before the wedding. For that reason, it is a really good idea to talk with all your ‘maids before coming in to get a good grasp on who will be wanting hair and make up that day so we can give you the best estimate on total cost.

    For brides with multiple events there is a $350 to reserve your day(s).

    We would love to find out if we would be the perfect fit for you and your bridal party. Asking a wedding professional to partake in the most amazing day of your life is a BIG DEAL. We don’t take it lightly and would never want any of our potential brides to either! So, like we said above, where it all begins is a preview. Once your preview is complete, we will then have the opportunity to go over contracts, locations etc. While you will be coming to us for the preview, on your wedding day we come to you! We at WCB send our team to you, making sure that you are on time and ready for the rest of your dreamy day.

    We are elated to hear more about you and your unique vision! If you are interested in moving forward with White Carpet Bride, please take a moment to fill out our survey (located on the Inquire page) so we can be sure to provide you with the best possible wedding day experience!

    We are so excited to help make you and your entire bridal party White Carpet Ready!

  • You definitely don’t have to book a preview before securing your date with our team. Many of our brides have worked with us before as bridesmaids and are confident that we are their best fit. Some brides are from out of town and want to ensure their date is held for them. We are happy to schedule a preview first or get you booked and schedule your preview for later!

  • We will do our best to honor any artist requests! When you inquire, there’s a box to tell us anything we may need to know - that’s the best place to put the request!

  • The retainer is a $200 non-transferrable, non-refundable stand alone fee that, along with a signed contract, secures your date with White Carpet Bride.

    What is the retainer for? This is what holds your date as a White Carpet Bride. It reserves your artist(s) for those 2-18months in advance of your big day. It also helps cover administrative hours, rent, licensing, insurance, legal fees, CPA’s and bookkeepers, taxes, lighting, heating and cooling, professional kit products, continuing education for our artists, research, marketing, etc. etc. etc. We also patron several small business owners to help take care of some of those items, so we practice what we hold true and dear.

  • We have a 7 day grace period after signing which allows for changes. Once that timeframe has passed, we will always do our very best to accommodate any additions depending on artist availability. We will not be able to decrease services as we will have reserved our artists’ time and planned our team’s schedule based off the agreed upon numbers. We always suggest booking for the minimum “for sure” services and requesting additions later if need be.

Preview FAQs

  • Some people like to call this your trial run. We like to call this your Preview Appointment. This appointment truly is just that; we want you to preview your ideas and inspirations for hair and makeup to see exactly what you will look like for your Big Day.

  • Preview appointments are scheduled in in 2 hour increments on Mondays beginning at 10am with our last appointment of the day being at 6pm. We want to ensure there is enough time to fully understand and accomplish the vision you have for your wedding day look. Most previews wrap up within about an hour and a half.

    Our address is:

    6113A Nieman Road

    Shawnee, KS 66203

  • A traditional bridal hair and make up preview is a total of $250. Should you just desire to do only make up, your preview appointment is $175. If you’re just wanting a hair preview, it is $175.

    These are stand-alone fees, are non-refundable and do not get applied toward any wedding day balances.

    Additional previews are priced as above.

  • We always suggest to do your homework! Cut out those beautiful magazine advertisements. Build your Pinterest board. Screen shot your bff’s makeup from her wedding that you were obsessed with. We want to know exactly what your vision is for your White Carpet Look. Don’t be shy, if you know what you DON’T like, that’s also incredibly helpful! We will talk through all of the things with you to find what will work best for your unique features/things you want to highlight, etc. Once we’ve chatted through all of it, we get right to play time! After all, what’s the point of scheduling time out of your busy day to come if you don’t get to see it in real life?

    We do ask you bring any veils, hair pieces, extensions, etc. that you plan to wear on your big day. We also suggest wearing white (or a color similar to your gown) to better visualize how your makeup will look day of, besides, it’s just another excuse to wear white and feel bridal!

  • Most of our brides do come from work or other appointments. We do not ever expect you to go home and wash and moisturize your face (or your hair!) before you come to your preview appointment. Just come as your day’s schedule denotes (heat styled hair/freshly washed, clean face or makeup on) and we will take it from there!

  • For brides that want to go ahead and make sure they will be a White Carpet Bride on their wedding day, we require a non-refundable $200 retainer fee and a signed contract. The remaining balance is due 30 days before the wedding. For that reason, it is a really good idea to talk with all your ‘maids before coming in to get a good grasp on who will be wanting hair and make up that day so we can give you the best estimate on total cost.

    For brides with multiple events there is a $350 to reserve your day(s).

    We would love to find out if we would be the perfect fit for you and your bridal party. Asking a wedding professional to partake in the most amazing day of your life is a BIG DEAL. We don’t take it lightly and would never want any of our potential brides to either! So, like we said above, where it all begins is a preview. Once your preview is complete, we will then have the opportunity to go over contracts, locations etc. While you will be coming to us for the preview, on your wedding day we come to you! We at WCB send our team to you, making sure that you are on time and ready for the rest of your dreamy day.

    We are elated to hear more about you and your unique vision! If you are interested in moving forward with White Carpet Bride, please take a moment to fill out our survey (located on the Inquire page) so we can be sure to provide you with the best possible wedding day experience!

    We are so excited to help make you and your entire bridal party White Carpet Ready!

  • YES! Barring an Act of God, we like to adopt the US Post Office motto (just maybe not their efficiency or countenance lol) “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays our artists from the swift completion of your wedding day beauty!” (paraphrased and adapted for our use, obviously.)

  • Yes. They are absolutely more than welcome to schedule a preview appointment if they feel it is absolutely necessary. Those appointments are also scheduled exclusively on Mondays at our studio. It is still the regular fee and we are happy to accommodate anyone that would feel it appropriate.

Wedding Day FAQs

  • We ask that everyone come with clean, dry hair with NO previous heat styling. Hair care has come a long way in the last several years - we can “dirty up” your hair with product that will enhance your style vs trying to fight with your natural oils with dry shampoo. If you prefer to wash it the night before and let it air dry, that’s great too. FULLY DRY HAIR IS KEY!!! There will be an additional $25 fee to dry your hair. 

  • We bring all the products we will need to fully take care of you and your bridal party. If you use a special cream, mousse, smoothing product, etc. (especially four our curly-haired beauties!), putting that in while wet and letting air dry is a-ok.

  • No. We have all the products needed for a full face for any person. We ask that everyone getting their makeup professionally done with us come with a clean and moisturized face. If you’d like to apply your own moisturizer, that’s great. Leave the rest to us!

  • Unless you have a rare, special allergy or skin condition, no. Everything we use in professional grade and all tools are properly sanitized between each person. “Reactions” to any products we use are extremely rare.

  • Nope! We bring all the tools and items that are needed and you will be set ALL day!

  • It is a personal preference with tanning in general. (Although, we highly suggest not to utilize tanning beds - skin cancer is NOT cute!) If you do decide to go traditional tanning, please cover your beautiful face!! For spray tanning, we have found that a customized airbrush spray is much more natural than a machine spray. At least three days prior to you wedding is the best time. So if you’re getting married on a Saturday, get your spray tan on Wednesday. (Disclaimer: If you do decide to get a spray tan, please try your spray artist out a few months in advance so you know exactly what to do the week of your big day and don’t arrive at a Jennifer Lopez/Wedding Planner situation. Orange isn’t a cute color next to your gown.)

  • We bring hand held mirrors but no chairs. Whatever is in the room in which you wish to get ready will be fine. We can work with any height, type, etc. If you would like to bring in bigger mirrors, that’s totally up to you. We are used to working without large mirrors as we are typically in hotel environments.

  • Your signed contract allows you 7 days from the date of signing to increase your numbers. We will ALWAYS do our very best to accommodate any added services, but cannot promise that we will be able to take care of any additions after the designated time frame given in your contract. Should we be able to accommodate your changes, a $50 change of contract fee will be accessed.

    Should you have people decide to not have hair and/or makeup, you are still responsible for the fully contracted dollar amount. We have planned ahead and reserved/sent the appropriate number of artists to serve the numbers on your contract.

  • Should you have people decide to not have hair and/or makeup, you are still responsible for the fully contracted dollar amount. We have planned ahead and reserved/sent the appropriate number of artists to serve the numbers on your contract. We suggest asking other party members/friends/family/officiant/etc. if they’d like to get in on the fun!

  • YES!!!! We allow 30 minutes per service but sometimes it doesn’t always take that long. We want to make sure we have everybody done and loving their look by the prior set done time. Plus, who doesn’t want more time with their besties?!

  • PLEASE NO. While Excel spreadsheets are very impressive and complimentary to your organizational skills, timelines such as these NEVER (and we mean NEVER) get followed. In all reality, they end up being more of a hindrance than anything. Some girls will think they don’t have to show up until later, think they can leave to go run an errand, go back up to their room, go help out with set up, assist another vendor bringing in items, etc. Because we may not need the fully allotted time with the girl “in line” before, a spreadsheet can potentially run your entire bridal timeline behind. (Weird, but SO true!) Not only would we have no one ready to hop in an empty chair, but it doesn’t allow for a fun, relaxed atmosphere. After all, the whole point of having your artists come to you guys is so that it’s a fun, relaxed time where you all get to enjoy it together before the day starts to FLY… and it will!

  • We do highly recommend that brides go purchase the color they decide is their “wedding day color”. We absolutely do use long wearing lip colors and provide a one time use touch up kit for you but with the full day of eating, drinking and (of course) kissing, we want you to have your dreamy shade in the event that you may need a touch up later in the evening.

  • No. With the professional, amazing quality of products we use, touch ups are simply not needed (other than potentially your lip color). Everything we use is made to last for many, may hours and will look beautiful from morning until your late night of celebrating and dancing is complete. However, if having an artist come back for a touch up is something you absolutely think you can’t live without, we can discuss options of sending someone back for an additional fee.

  • You do you, boo. However, if you plan on having one of our artists apply false lashes please rethink a lift! It can create a kink that makes it nearly impossible to place the lashes appropriately and comfortably.