Firing Long-time Hairstylist from Wedding

I should preface this post by saying, I already know I’m going to talk to her, and nothing super dramatic has happened.


I’ve had the same girl doing my color for seven years. She is excellent at color, but has never done my hair for special occasion. Back in March I had my bridal portraits, and I paid her to do my hair (long down in waves a little teasing at the crown for my veil, nothing too difficult). To be honest, I had done a very similar hairstyle on my self for a gala a couple weekends before that.
The hair was fine for portraits, but it’s not at all what I wanted for the actual day. It’s such a simple look that I’m going for, but I’m very particular about frizziness, wave pattern, smoothness, etc. I probably sound neurotic, but I have very very long blonde hair so it is kind of a stand out feature of my overall look. So I am being very particular.
I have a color appointment with her in a couple weeks, and I will probably just tell her since we have postpone the wedding and it has a later start time, I plan on just doing my own hair for myself and my sister.
Any advice or similar experiences you guys can share? I feel really bad, but I also don’t at the same time since it’s my day and I don’t feel like special occasion hair is her strong suit.