“Confession: I’m trying to force my groom to fake tan before our wedding.”
For my entire year-long engagement, I’ve been a Zen Bride.
The seating plan drama that everyone warned me about never eventuated; I chose my dress by myself, with no tears or fanfare; and I flat-out refused to diet before the wedding.
Yep, I was firmly in the homemade-bouquet, garterless, last-minute-vows camp of fuss-free bridal bliss.
But now my day is a mere week away now and it’s happened, it’s finally happened: I’ve officially become an Anti-Zen Bride. And the focus of my newfound laser-like bridal focus?
The colour of my groom’s tan.
Here’s how my descent into the depths of this bridal obsession evolved.
With the prospect of 12 hours’ worth continual paparazzi-type photography over the course of the wedding day looming, I finally caved last weekend and spent a solid day doing all the bridal preparation that magazines have been yelling at me to sort out for a year now: Trims! Tone! Scrub! Pluck! Wax! Lunge! I got sucked in to the whole bridal shebang, spending the equivalent of a Bali mini-moon on becoming as blonde and white-teethed and sheeny as Britney Spears circa 1998.
But after all that scrubbing, spraying and squatting, I had a realisation: next to my newly buffed self, my rather pale and unkempt husband-to-be might appear as something of a Peter Doherty to my Kate Moss in our wedding photos.
In other words, I wanted my groom to match my freshly-scrubbed look. And I decided that if I was going to be the colour of walnut as we said our vows, then dammit, my new husband would be too.
And so the proverbial seed was sowed.
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Obviously he is dead against it. Let him alone. If you are that worried about him looking pasty next to you then either tone down your own fake tan so it is subtle or forego it altogether. Go for the beautiful English rose look. Why look like strangers on your wedding day?
Go for it! I am 5 months out from our big day and so far I have trialled fake tan on him, dyed his hair and beard and got him to train 3 times a week. He was resistant to all at first (except working out). But I did it for him and he trusted that I wouldn't make him look like a lunatic, just a slightly more groomed version of himself. He loves the hair and beard being slightly darker. So we have kept that up. He was very surprised with the natural tan results. While he isn't into doing it on a weekly basis he is now happy to wear it on the wedding day. My fiancé is about as blokey as you can imagine, so I started working on him and introducing products early. My only fear for you is that you have left your run a little late. But I will cross my fingers for you!