Finding the perfect wedding updo is essential for brides looking to complement their unique style and hair type. Whether you're envisioning a classic, elegant look or something more modern and relaxed, the right updo can elevate your bridal appearance, making you feel stunning on your big day.
From intricate braids to sleek buns and romantic curls, these 50 chic wedding updos offer inspiration for every wedding style, ensuring you'll find a look that perfectly suits your vision and enhances your natural beauty.
1. Romantic Style with Fishtail Milkmaid Braids
This style has fishtail braids arranged in a semicircle to leave more space in the front for the wreath to make a strong focal point.
2. Voluminous Low Updo with Boho Vibes
This blonde hair adorned with a loose side braid and seriously disheveled chignon looks charmingly textured and effortless.
3. Tightly Rolled High Updo with a Puff
Here, a tight French roll is nicely texturized through stripped coloring and unexpectedly crowned with a tuft of messy hair.
4. Soft Waves Meet Laced Chignon
Lavishly woven hair is a staple of modern up hairdos for weddings, and this soft style is all about waves and twists.
5. Sky-High Black Bun with Lengthy Bangs
This smooth and shiny style made of relaxed hair gets its dimensional bun perfectly balanced with an oversized fringe.
6. Extra Relaxed Hairstyle with a Bun
Buns are frequent choices among updos for a wedding, but this mass of twisted hair placed at the nape stands out for its ethereal feel.
7. Beautifully Defined French Twist
This elegant ‘do adds tons of definition to the classic French roll with both silver blonde highlights and pulled-out strands.
8. Ample Twisted Updo for Natural Curly Hair
Having healthy defined curls, you don’t need to tinker with intricate hairstyles and can go with a carefree roll full of waves and tendrils.
9. Dreamy Multi-Layered Chignon
While it might be tricky to pack long hair into bridal updos, this textured hairstyle with a repeatedly twirled low bun deals with the challenge excellently.
10. Quick Messy Bun for Short Hair
The lob length is enough to rock such a cool updo where an effortless top knot is framed with edgy blunt-end waves.
11. Super Polished Criss Cross Bun
This upstyle looks simple yet exquisite, boasting much volume at the crown and around the neck and gaining some dynamics with highlights.
12. Basket Weave Chignon with Side Braiding
Although many updo wedding hairstyles incorporate floral hair accessories, not many of them manage to create such a stunning flower-basket look.
13. Striking Asymmetrical Reversed Twist
We have seen a good deal of bridal updo hairstyles based on a French twist, but what about turning it upside down and filling the whole length with texture?
14. A Step Away from Wearing Long Hair Down
If you want to sport a bohemian style showing both length and volume, this intricately intertwined bun with plenty of loose locks is just the thing.
15. Fishtail Braiding for Black Hair
It’s not easy to create texture in updo hairstyles for weddings if your hair is dark — but not for this headband braid complemented with a bunch of face-framing waves.
16. Lush Pony with Bouffant
This bouncy hairstyle crowns the head with different-sized swirls of hair and complements the look with a handsomely full wavy pony.
17. Understated Chignon with Creamy Blonde Balayage
This neat upstyle doesn’t have many curves in the bun and throughout the crown, but it still keeps them textured with tiny ribbons of blonde.
18. Low Ballerina Bun with Crystals
It’s hard to miss the gorgeous crystal design set against the sleek hair, but have you noticed those crisp loose ends sticking out of the flawless bun?
19. Massive Low Bun Wrapped with a Head Scarf
Sometimes less is more, and this uncomplicated ‘do that just slightly accentuates the chignon’s fulness feels absolutely stylish.
20. Mesmerizing Loose Messy Bun
This ice queen wears her creamy locks puffed around the whole perimeter and topped with a flower-decorated curly bun.
21. Thoroughly Wrapped Chignon with Bronze Flare
These dark locks are beautifully illuminated with splashes of metallic highlights which add depth to the color and emphasize the soft twists.
22. Tousled French Roll with Bangs
If you don’t know how to style the wedding hair updo front, these trendy curtain bangs blended with side tendrils will give you a cue.
23. Haphazardly Looped Voluminous Bun
As tender as the silk petals of the silver flowers used for decoration, this messy bun is dimensional and chic.
24. Smooth Bun Dotted with Crystals
Boasting a rich shade of brown, this healthy and shiny hair requires no more prettification than a tiny yet off-beat accent.
25. Jumbo Bun with Contrast
This hard-to-miss updo does have something extra — extra volume around the crown, extra texture in the bun, and extra depth thanks to the bright highlights against the dark base.
26. Minimalist Blonde Chignon
Modestly embellished with a crystal pin, this style сhimes with the depth and texture created with a blonde balayage and maximized with styling.
27. Looped from Top to Nape
Here we have a whole set of twists and loops creating tons of volume and movement in the back while opening up the face.
28. Undone Mid-Height Bun with Definition
Complemented with three-dimensional highlights, this sexy bun sits comfortably right between the crown and the nape to ooze volume and show off the neck.
29. Jet-Black Hair with a Veil and Hair Jewelry
This clever bride avoids overwhelming her look with color blends or fancy hairstyle details, giving preference to a statement accessory and a veil.
30. Princess Hair with a Swirly Bun
While the tiara creates a grand focal point in the front, the tight knotted bun adds some interest to the back view.
31. Mermaid-Inspired Upstyle
This girl has a hint of wave throughout her crown and bun, and we are not surprised to see a scattering of pearls floating on the waves.
32. Rakishly Twisted Wedding Hair
You wouldn’t want to hide such a lavish interweaving behind a veil, so it makes sense to pin it underneath your twirls.
33. Delusive Updo with Cascading Curls
Some of these locks are definitely let down, yet most of the hair is pinned into a uber-relaxed upstyle.
34. Extensive Low Bun with a Zest
It’s really fun to integrate a mini tightly plaited infinity braid into a voluminous and messy low bun.
35. Non-Fussy Chignon with Colorful Florals
While we are accustomed to seeing one-color accessories in bridal updos, your hairstyle may gain more attention with pops of pastel shades.
36. Extremely High-Volume Bun
These platinum blonde strands are slicked into a classic high bun spiced up with fanciful bends, thus looking modern and crisp.
37. Spooled Chignon with Loose Ends
Flyaways are kind of baked into twisted messy updos, so you can have no worries about little imperfections.
38. XXL Halo Braid for Thick Hair
This opulent style makes the most out of the abundant hair and packs it into an oversize braid winding around the head.
39. Edgy French Twist for Medium Hair
This elegant updo allows shorter strands to stick out of the roll, turning the shortage into unique details.
40. Foxy Twisted Hair
We can’t decide what part we like most — the contrasting ginger-meets-blonde color scheme or the texture built into these hair wraps.
41. Dainty High Bun with Pearly Décor
This voluptuous top knot is neither polished nor tousled but meticulously shaped and textured to land a timeless look.
42. Eye-Catching Fishtail-Themed Plaiting
Although the chiseled side braid makes a centerpiece of this style, it has other attention-worthy details, such as the lifted strands on the crown and looped chignon.
43. Bouffant Upstyle with a Hefty Accessory
We like how this massive headpiece accentuates the airiness of the blonde updo full of delicate bends and ethereal tendrils.
44. Wavy Crown and Twisted Bun
The top of this updo is creatively sculptured to accommodate those narrower pieces chiming well with the delicate tendrils.
45. Low Bun with Bright Accents
Infusing your wedding hairstyle with fresh flowers is a great idea, but you can take it a step further and opt for a fancy color.
46. Woven Hair with a Texture Play
The twists in this fairytale style feel even softer against the stone texture of the clay flowers.
47. Lifted Crown Framed with Twists
Braiding is not the only way to zhuzh up your low bun upstyle — twisted pieces on both sides can envelop your bouffant gracefully.
48. Pearled Messy Twist
If you think a tousled French roll lacks elegance, give it a touch of class with a couple of pearl hairpins.
49. Rich in Volume Updo for Fine Hair
This whimsical hairstyle decorated with a cute side braid and petty florals looks airy and shines with dimension.
50. Delicate Chignon Updo for Thin Hair
Highlights and lowlights create depth in these locks, which is further enhanced with raised strands on the crown, while waves and relaxed styling do a great job for volume.
Sleek or messy, classic or currently trending, wedding updos should match your personality and give you the freedom to feel like you, not someone else.
That’s why we recommend having a hair trial — it will help you to realize whether you are comfortable with the style of your choice and avoid regrets on the big day. Take hair inspo from our collection and go for it!
