Making Up Can be so Hard to Do
Getting your make-up right on your wedding day can be a tricky proposition no matter where you are, but the addition of sun makes some extra precautions and tips particularly useful.
A good general tip is to avoid up-to-the-minute styles and fashions - have you seen those terrible panda-eyed 70's wedding photographs? You want your children laughing at you? Classic simple make-up that suits your natural colouring is always important, but even more so in the sun.
Avoid those Melting Moments
Heavy make-up and hot sun are a match made in hell, your face will just melt away when the going gets hot.
Again, the watchword is simple. Many brides spend a lot of time worrying about developing a shiny face in sun, and lorry on the powder to avoid it. This has the opposite effect as it will cause perspiration and just melt away.
Instead don't think shine, think sheen and go for a light foundation that give you a glowing, fresh-faced look.
Keep it natural looking and play to your strengths. If you are a red head a bronzed face will just look false, go for the pale and interesting look instead.
Test Beforehand
Whatever make-up you wear, be sure to use it at least once before the day of your wedding.
If you discover that you are allergic to that wonderful new mascara on the morning of your wedding you will be staring puffy-eyed out of wedding photographs for ever more.
Peeling Isn't Pretty!
Do not be tempted to get a tan in a hurry by lying in the sun in the days leading up to your wedding. You are far more likely to end up burnt and red-faced or with 'high tide marks', where your tan ends before your dress begins. If you have fair skin it will probably be worse, leaving you walking up the aisle with sore peeling skin - not a good look.
Instead cover up carefully and consider having a spray-on tan applied the day before the wedding.