Hairstylist + Makeup Artist Travel Rates
When planning your wedding, don’t forget to think about travel and lodging for your vendors. If your venue is in the mountains or at a beach resort—basically anywhere over an hour away—it’s usually considered a destination wedding, which can affect costs. A cliffside wedding can definitely sound amazing and provide some spectacular backdrops. It’s important to note, anything that requires travel over 1hr from a vendor’s location is no longer local and the vendor will have to factor in travel times. Windshield time is often overlooked, but remember that vendors aren’t just driving to your location; they also have to make the trip back the same day. That extra time on the road, combined with early start times, long wedding days, and potential overnight stays, all factor into travel fees.
At Beauty Asylum Hair & Makeup, we do our best to have artists in different areas to help keep travel fees down. But for remote or international weddings, higher travel costs may be unavoidable. If you find a stylist with super low rates, just make sure they’re experienced and reliable so you’re not dealing with unnecessary stress on your big day!
What you need to know & why:
Travel Takes Time: a wedding that is 2 hours away doesn't seem so bad- until you have to drive back the same day. Fees are based on travel to the location and returning from the location.
Hidden Costs: Mileage on our vehicle, gas, and maintenance following.
Loss of Time: We have families and most of the time they work a 9-5 or attend school Monday through Friday. We love what we do and do it out of love for our brides. Keep in mind when we choose to work with you we are deciding not to see our loved ones at all this day.
Potential Jobs:As a popular vendor, we typically book 4-5 local weddings per Saturday. During peak season (March, April, May, June, September, October, November), we receive up to 40 inquiries per wedding date. Each lead stylist can only take one wedding per Saturday, meaning we are turning away additional local weddings. If you’d like a stylist to travel to your destination, an incentive should be considered to prioritize your wedding and balance the logistics.
If you’re looking for the top services in the industry, it’s worth investing a little more. When multiple stylists are traveling to your wedding, the travel fees apply to each individual, as they are based in different locations.
TRAVEL RATES
Basic travel is included within a 25 mile radius of each city location. Rates can vary per location and the availability of artists for each date.
Our company is happy to travel up to 1hr for bridal trials, with travel compensation. We provide wedding stylists in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Charleston. Our bridal team is available to travel within a 25-mile radius of the city center. If the trial location is more than one hour outside the city center, we require an alternate location, such as a hotel, Airbnb, or a friend/family’s home. Beauty Asylum will not travel beyond a one-hour radius for a bridal trial unless this is discussed and agreed upon before booking. Brides can choose to host the trial at a closer location or book a room for the day.
If your wedding day and trial location exceeds 25 miles the rate breakdown per stylist is $30/hr and travel is priced round trip from the city center.
rate for two stylists is $60/hr if your location exceeds 25 miles
rate for three stylists is $90/hr if your location exceeds 25 miles
rate for four stylists is $120/hr if your location exceeds 25 miles
3. Gratuity of 18% will be factored in for all weddings.
4. Parking fees will be included as well for each stylist.
5. Relocation fee of $50 per stylist will be added if our stylists unpack/pack kit items in order to move to an additional location.
6. Hotel accommodations are required the night before the wedding if the start time is 7 am or earlier for local weddings, or if the travel time exceeds one hour with a start time of 8am or earlier. For destination weddings with 2+ hours of drive time, we require a room to be booked the evening before for each stylist. Lodging arrangements help eliminate any unforeseen issues in the early morning hours, ensuring the artists arrive on-site and are ready at the requested time.
7. We try to think of all unexpected costs associated with hair & makeup. Check out additional fees you might not see coming, HERE.
DESTINATION WEDDINGS
+uber/ car rental
+minimum 2-3 night stay (location pending)
+ round trip flight
