A team of three.
The whole party, ready by noon.
Bridal hair and makeup for New York and the Hamptons. We arrive together, set up three chairs, and nobody waits.
Finished · Manhattan
Finished · Montauk
The idea
Most bridal artists come alone. We never do.
One artist for a party of seven means the bride is done last, in a hurry, while the photographer waits. Three of us means three chairs, one timeline, and you in your dress at noon with an hour to spare.
- 3artists at every wedding
- 7people ready by noon
- 640weddings since 2015
The team
Three of us, every time.
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Margaux ValeMakeup · founder
Ten years backstage in New York and Paris. Skin first, always.
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Inès MoreauHair
Chignons that hold through the Montauk wind. Pins every veil against a fan.
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Simone AchebeHair and makeup
The fastest hands on the team, and the moms’ favorite.
How it started
Sag Harbor, 2014. One artist, eight women, one hour.
I spent ten years backstage at fashion weeks in New York and Paris, doing forty faces before a show and learning to work fast without ever looking rushed. Then my sister Claire got married in Sag Harbor, and the artist she’d booked came alone for a party of eight.
By three o’clock the bridesmaids were done and Claire had one eye finished. The ceremony was at four. I did her lashes in the back of our dad’s station wagon on Main Street, with the dome light on and the photographer knocking on the window.
The next spring I started Maison Vale with Inès, whom I’d met backstage holding a pin in her teeth and a blow dryer in each hand. We had one rule, and it is still the only one: we arrive together. Simone joined us in 2019 after two seasons assisting, and now the moms ask for her by name.
What we believe is simple. Skin that looks like skin, in better light. Hair that stays where we put it on a windy dune. And a morning so calm the bride has time to eat something.
Margaux
The morning
Three chairs, one timeline.
A real morning for the bride and six, as we send it to your planner the week before. Everyone gets hair and makeup; the bride gets the last hour and all three of us.
Champagne on the lid, nothing on the skin you can see.
Inès pins the chignon from underneath, so it never shows.
Our kit: every brush washed the night before, set out on white.
Prices
From $2,400 for the bride and six.
One price for the morning, with lashes, the trial and the gratuity in it. $150 holds your date, and the rest is due two weeks before.
Hold a date- The bride and six$2,400
- Three artists, hair and makeup for seven, lashes for everyone, a trial at our suite, and the whole party ready by noon.
- Each guest after six$225
- Hair and makeup. $125 for one or the other. Past ten in the party, a fourth artist from our circle joins us.
- Stay for the evening$750
- One of us stays through the first dance, then changes your hair for the after-party. Sleek, low and done in twelve minutes.
- A second trial$350
- Your first trial is included. Some brides like to see the look again with the veil, the earrings and the dress.
- Courthouse or elopement$1,200
- Two of us, for you and one other. City Hall, a rooftop, a Montauk beach at 6 am.
- The Hamptons and North Fork$450
- Team travel, Southampton to Montauk, Shelter Island and the North Fork. Starts before 7 am: we stay the night, $300.
Weddings
Recent mornings, finished.
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ManhattanSeptember · Sleek wave, soft bronze
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MontaukJune · Low knot, cathedral veil
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TribecaOctober · The party in black satin
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East HamptonAugust · Side-pinned waves
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West VillageFebruary · A red lip and a low knot
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BrooklynMay · High ponytail, nude lip
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Upper East SideApril · The mother of the bride
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Midtown terraceNovember · 11:40 pm, lipstick again
In their words
5.0 from 212 brides.
“Seven of us, three artists, and we were drinking champagne at 11:50. I have never seen my mother early to anything.”
Caroline · Sag Harbor, July“The wind on the dunes took two hats and a groomsman’s boutonnière. My veil did not move.”
Priya · Montauk, June“Margaux talked me out of the contour I thought I wanted. In every photo I look like me, rested.”
Elena · Tribeca, October“They set up like a little salon in my parents’ dining room and left it cleaner than they found it.”
Hannah · Upper East Side, April
Where
Two homes: the city and the shore.
The city
Manhattan and Brooklyn, no travel fee. Hotel suites, lofts, your parents’ apartment. Trials are at our suite in the East 70s, two blocks from the park.
The shore
$450 travel for the team: Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Montauk, Shelter Island and the North Fork. For starts before 7 am we stay the night nearby.
Questions
Before you write to us.
Does $150 really hold the date?
Yes. Pick your date below and pay $150, and the three of us are yours that day. It comes off your total, and the rest is due two weeks before the wedding.
Do you ever send just one artist?
Never for a wedding. The whole idea is that we arrive together, so nobody waits and the bride is never done in a rush at the end. For a courthouse wedding or an elopement, two of us come.
How early should we book?
Saturdays from May to October in the Hamptons go about a year ahead. Fridays, Sundays and city weddings in the winter are easier, and we are glad to hear from you three months out.
Where is the trial?
At our suite on the Upper East Side, on a weekday, six to ten weeks before. Bring the veil, the earrings and a photo of the dress. It takes about three hours with hair and makeup.
What about the wind, the heat and the ocean air?
Every look is set for a summer on the water. Inès pins every veil in front of a fan at the trial, and your touch-up kit has blotting papers, your lipstick and two spare pins.
Is the gratuity included?
Yes. The price you see is the price, with lashes, the trial and the gratuity in it. Travel to the Hamptons is the only thing added.
Hold a date
$150 holds all three of us.
Pick your date and tell us how many are in the party. Margaux texts you within the day to say hello and set up your trial.
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