Calculator
What is left of a bridal package after kit, travel and your assistant
Enter one booking and see the take home, the margin and the hourly rate you are really working for on a wedding day.
Free tools
Calculators for the wedding morning and the invoice
Two quick tools for the numbers bridal artists usually work out on a phone in a hotel parking lot.
Both calculators take the figures you already know, which is what you charge, how many faces you are doing, how long your own services run, and what you hand your second artist. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere. They are here because the two questions that decide whether a wedding season pays are what a booking leaves you and whether the morning actually fits.
Use your real trial timings rather than the durations on your price list. Most artists price a bridesmaid at forty five minutes and then take fifty five when the hair is thick and the room is dark. Run the numbers with the honest version and the results will match what happens on the Saturday.
Calculator
How many hours the getting ready room actually needs
Put in the service counts and your real per person timings and see how far before the ready time your first chair has to start.
Working document
The wedding morning call sheet template you can fill in tonight
A blank call sheet with every line a bridal team needs, so your second artist arrives already knowing who is in her chair at seven forty.
Open to any bridal artist, no sign up
Neither calculator asks for an email address. An artist should not have to hand over her contact details to find out how early the first chair has to start for eight makeup and six hair services across two artists, or what a fourteen hundred dollar party leaves once the lashes, the disposables and the second artist are paid. Both run in the browser on the page you are standing on, nothing is stored, and you can close the tab with nothing left behind.
They are worth having even if you never look at the software. Right now this arithmetic gets done on the back of a trial card or on a phone in a hotel parking lot: service count times your per person minutes, divided by the number of artists in the room, counted backward from the ready time the photographer gave you, then the invoice total minus product per face, minus mileage, minus what you hand your assistant, divided by a nine hour door to door day. Written down once, those two numbers tell you whether to raise the minimum, add a travel fee, or book a third artist for the Saturday in June with a fourteen person party.
When the numbers say the morning no longer fits
An hourly rate you would not accept and a first chair that starts before the hotel opens the suite are both schedule problems, and the schedule is where they get fixed. A demo shows the same arithmetic running every time a mother of the groom is added, with the new start time and each artist assignment landing on a shared call sheet. Bring the figures you got here and we will start from those.