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How to schedule a makeup trial for an out of state wedding

Planning a destination wedding makes it difficult to coordinate travel for a pre-wedding makeup trial when you are limited to occasional weekends and cannot take weekday trips. This restriction creates heavy anxiety over whether to skip the trial entirely or risk missing out on finding the right local vendor.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    doing the makeup trial a couple of days before the wedding instead of weeks in advance

In their words

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r/weddingplanning2 people · September 2026

“i’m planning a wedding from a different state and trying to use mainly local vendors. how important is doing a makeup trial prior to the wedding? with our work schedule we can only do very occasional weekend trips, and likely wouldn’t be able to do a weekday trip to schedule the trial :/”source ↗

Professional-Ask3909 · r/weddingplanning · 10 upvotes

“Now I worry if I should have gone with wednesday instead or won't a day make much of a difference?”source ↗

anotherhaimsister · r/weddingplanning

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