Congratulations, Bride-to-Be! You said “yes,” and now your mind is spinning with visions of venues, dresses, flowers, and first dances. But before you start sampling cake and designing invites, there’s one essential detail you can’t overlook — your skin. Let’s be honest, every bride dreams of radiating gorgeous confidence and glowing from within on her wedding day, but that ethereal, effortless radiance doesn’t happen overnight. Just like finding the perfect gown, achieving your best skin by your wedding day requires planning, expertise, and time.
That’s where Skin Artisans comes in. Our team of Advanced Practice Estheticians and Nurse Injectors brings decades of experience to your bridal skincare journey. We’ve helped hundreds of women from the Minneapolis area (and beyond!) walk down the aisle with confidence, guiding them through personalized treatment plans that blend medical-grade skincare products, advanced skin and laser treatments, and completely natural-looking cosmetic injectables. Whether you’re tackling stubborn breakouts, uneven tone, rosacea, or simply want to achieve that next-level luminosity that makeup alone simply can’t fake, our experts know exactly how to get you there by your big day.
At Skin Artisans, we don’t just “treat” your skin, we partner with you. From your first consultation to your final pre-wedding day glow-up, we tailor every product, treatment, and timeline to your skin’s unique needs and your wedding-day vision. Think of us as your skin’s glam squad; your behind-the-scenes experts ensuring your complexion looks as beautiful and timeless when you walk down the aisle as your love story. And, just like with so many other things in life, the earlier you start, the better!
Skin Artisan’s Bridal Skincare Timeline
8-12 Months Before Your Wedding Day: Early Planning to Build Your Foundation
VISIA® Skin Analysis & Consultation
Every great skincare plan starts with insight. Our VISIA® Skin Analysis is your first step toward glowing wedding-day skin, and it’s far more than a simple visual skin assessment. VISIA is cutting-edge technology available at all Skin Artisans locations in Edina, Woodbury, and Minnetonka. It uses multi-spectral imaging to look beneath the surface of your skin, revealing details invisible to the naked eye. It measures and maps everything from sun damage and pigmentation to fine lines, pore size, and bacteria, even showing how your skin compares to others in your age range.
Why is this so important? Because to design the perfect pre-wedding skincare timeline, we need to truly understand the current state of your skin. Your VISIA results provide the data that helps us customize your entire journey, determining which treatments will deliver the biggest impact, when to schedule them, and which medical-grade skincare products will elevate your results at home.
During this initial consultation, your Advanced Practice Esthetician will listen closely to your goals, and with the feedback from your VISIA Analysis, curate a personalized skincare regimen designed to get your complexion in its prime condition for your big day. From cleansers and antioxidants to moisturizers, retinols, and SPF, your at-home routine becomes the daily foundation that complements (and is just as important!) as your professional treatments with us. This is the moment your bridal glow plan officially begins, and your skin starts saying, “I dew!”
GLP-1 Medical Weight Loss and BioTE® Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
At Skin Artisans, our goal isn’t just to help you look your best on your wedding day, we want you to feel your best too! A healthy, radiant glow comes from the inside out, which is why many brides (and grooms!) begin their transformation journey with our GLP-1 Medical Weight Loss and BioTE® Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) programs. These medically supervised treatments can help you reach your ideal weight, balance your hormones, and feel energized, confident, and strong before saying “I do.”
GLP-1 Medical Weight Loss – If you’ve been struggling to lose those stubborn pounds, our GLP-1 program offers an advanced, clinically backed solution. GLP-1 medications work by mimicking natural hormones that regulate appetite and blood sugar levels, helping you feel fuller longer and reduce cravings. Combined with our ongoing medical guidance and lifestyle coaching, this program helps brides and grooms safely and effectively achieve a healthy, sustainable weight, with visible results in as little as a few weeks.
BioTE® Hormone Optimization – Feeling stressed, fatigued, or just “off”? Hormonal imbalance could be to blame. BioTE® Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) uses tiny, customized pellets containing bioidentical hormones that match those naturally produced by your body to restore balance, improve mood, increase energy, and even enhance skin quality. Balanced hormones support restful sleep, lean muscle tone, and stable metabolism, all of which contribute to looking and feeling your absolute best when you walk down the aisle.
When combined, GLP-1 therapy and BioTE BHRT can help both you and your groom glow with confidence from the inside out. Because a healthy body and balanced hormones are just as important as flawless skin in helping you feel incredible on your wedding day (and honeymoon!).
Regenerative Rejuvenation Therapies with Sculptra & PRP
Some of the most transformative treatment options for brides are the ones that work quietly and steadily beneath the surface, gradually rebuilding structure, improving tone, and enhancing your skin’s natural radiance over time. Because these regenerative therapies depend on your body’s own healing and collagen-production processes, they require a longer runway to reveal their full results. That’s why beginning them early in your bridal journey is essential.
Sculptra® Aesthetic – Sculptra isn’t a traditional filler, it’s a collagen-stimulating injectable that restores youthful firmness and smoothness from within. Made from poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), Sculptra gradually encourages your skin to rebuild lost collagen, improving volume, smoothing fine lines, and enhancing overall facial structure. The result is incredibly soft, subtle, natural-looking rejuvenation that develops over several months.
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) – PRP uses growth factors extracted from your own blood to stimulate collagen production, accelerate healing, brighten tone, and improve texture. It can be used on its own injected directly into the skin, or paired with SkinPen® Microneedling for boosted results. When used with microneedling, PRP amplifies collagen-building and significantly elevates treatment outcomes. It’s ideal for brides seeking fresher, smoother skin, minimized fine lines, refined pores, or improved firmness, all without adding volume or altering facial proportions. The results build gradually and beautifully, making your complexion look healthier, more vibrant, and more youthful in the most natural way.
6–8 Months Before Your Wedding Day: Mid-Stage Prep & Magic! Correct, Contour, and Rejuvenate with Laser Skin Treatments & Injectables
Laser Treatments: HALO™, BBL HERO™, and ProFractional™
6-8 months before your wedding date is your ideal window for transformative laser treatments! Whether you want to improve acne scarring, brighten your skin tone, smooth fine lines, reduce redness, or reverse signs of sun damage on your face, chest and back, these powerhouse lasers can do it all. However, we need to plan ahead so we budget enough time for your skin to fully heal and reveal that enviable, even glow by your big day. Depending on the laser treatment and the recommendations of your provider, your treatment may have up to a week of downtime that includes some redness and flaking. That’s why these treatments are best scheduled well ahead of your wedding day. In addition, many of the benefits of laser treatments continue to improve up to six months past your initial appointment. This timeline allows us to catch your results at their peak radiance for your big day!
HALO™ Hybrid Fractional Laser – This dual-wavelength treatment combines deep dermal remodeling with gentle surface renewal. One wavelength penetrates deep into the skin to trigger collagen production, while the other polishes away dull, damaged cells on the surface. The result? Reduced fine lines, softened acne scars, refined pores, improved skin tone, and an unmistakable “HALO glow.”
BBL HERO™ (BroadBand Light) – Think of this as a photofacial with superpowers. BBL HERO™ delivers bursts of light energy that gently heat the skin, targeting redness, broken capillaries, sun damage, and brown spots. It also stimulates skin cell regeneration, leaving you with a brighter, more balanced complexion virtually anywhere on your body. If you are wearing a backless wedding gown and want to remove sun damage on your upper back and shoulders – this is the treatment for you!
ProFractional™ Laser – This collagen-boosting treatment works by creating microscopic channels in the skin that prompt the body’s natural healing process. It’s especially effective for minimizing acne scarring, smoothing fine lines, and tightening skin texture. Over the weeks following your treatment, new collagen forms, leaving your skin dramatically smoother, plumper, and more youthful-looking. ProFractional can also be “stacked” or layered with other laser treatments, like MOXI, to further enhance your results. Your provider may also recommend other laser treatments, like a gentle series of skin smoothing ClearSilk®, orVbeam Perfecta® for redness, depending on your skin’s condition and your goals.
By starting laser treatments early, you give your skin the luxury of time to recover and regenerate, ensuring a naturally radiant, photo-ready glow on your wedding day.
BOTOX® and Dermal Fillers
Starting your injectable journey early is one of the smartest steps you can take in preparing for your wedding day. Beginning BOTOX® Cosmetic and dermal fillers several months before you say “I do” gives you and your Skin Artisans Nurse Injector the invaluable advantage of time. Time to soften fine lines, refine your features, build your ideal aesthetic, and understand exactly how your skin responds to treatment. That means when the big day arrives, you’re simply maintaining and perfecting a look you already love.
BOTOX® Cosmetic – BOTOX® works by temporarily relaxing specific facial muscles to soften expression lines such as crow’s feet, frown lines, and forehead creases. When started early, these treatments can gradually smooth the skin, prevent deeper lines from forming, and help you look naturally rested and refreshed — nothing frozen, nothing overdone. Just a beautifully relaxed, photogenic expression in every candid, posed, and stolen-kiss moment.
Dermal Fillers (Juvéderm® & Restylane® Collections) – Dermal fillers like Juvéderm® and Restylane® use hyaluronic acid, a naturally occurring molecule in the skin, to add volume, definition, and smoothness exactly where you need it. Whether it’s enhancing the lips for that first kiss, refining cheek contours for gorgeous profile photos, or subtly balancing the chin or jawline, fillers can create harmony and proportion that looks incredibly natural both in person and on camera.
3–6 Months Before Your Wedding Day: Refine Your Appearance, Boost Hydration, and Improve Texture with ClearSilk®, DiamondGlow®, SkinPen® and Dermaplaning
Your wedding bouquet will wilt, but your wedding photos will last a lifetime, and healthy, well-prepared skin makes all the difference in how you look in them. Smooth skin texture allows light to bounce evenly across your face, creating that natural, soft-focus glow that photographers love. Hydrated skin adds a dewy, supple quality that makeup simply can’t replicate on its own. However, achieving smooth, balanced skin can take time. That’s why Skin Artisans recommends beginning the therapies below 3-4 months before your wedding to improve your skin’s condition well ahead of time.
ClearSilk® Laser Series – ClearSilk® has earned its nickname as the “wedding day facial” for a reason. It delivers an immediate, healthy glow with virtually no downtime, all while improving skin tone, texture, and radiance over time. This gentle, non-ablative laser treatment uses safe, effective, low-level heat to stimulate collagen production and calm redness, resulting in brighter, smoother skin that looks incredible both in person and in photos.
While the results are subtle after each session, ClearSilk truly shines when performed in a series, typically spaced 2–4 weeks apart. Each treatment builds upon the last, gradually enhancing your complexion’s clarity and luminosity. That means by the time your wedding approaches, your skin looks naturally flawless, like you’ve been sleeping well, hydrating perfectly, and glowing from the inside out (even if wedding planning says otherwise!).
DiamondGlow® Series – Think of this as your skin’s bridal bootcamp for that luminous glow all brides want on their wedding day. DiamondGlow is an advanced, 3-in-1 resurfacing treatment that exfoliates, extracts impurities, and infuses nourishing SkinMedica® serums deep into the skin for instant hydration and radiance. A series of treatments every 2–3 weeks builds hydrated, plump, clear wedding-day skin that practically shines from within.
SkinPen® Microneedling and/or Chemical Peels Series – Microneedling offers next-level rejuvenation for tone, texture, and collagen-building with little to no downtime. At Skin Artisans, we use the SkinPen®, the first FDA-cleared microneedling device clinically proven to improve acne scars and skin texture. Microneedling creates thousands of controlled micro-injuries that trigger your skin’s natural healing response, resulting in firmer, smoother skin. For an extra level of rejuvenation, we can pair your treatment with PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) to supercharge collagen production, healing and brightness by your big day and (plated)™ skinscience products with regenerating exosomes to dramatically boost your results from home.
Chemical peels lift dull, damaged cells and help to even tone and refine texture for luminous, youthful-looking skin. One of our favorite peels to perform on brides is the VI Peel. Not only does it dramatically improve your skin’s tone and clear acne, the VI Peel can be used virtually anywhere on your body. This is especially beneficial if you are wearing a sleeveless or backless dress and struggle with acne.
Dermaplaning – This gentle exfoliation treatment removes peach fuzz and surface buildup, leaving your skin silky-smooth, and your makeup absolutely flawless. At Skin Artisans we use dermaplaning before your DiamondGlow treatments and immediately before some chemical peel to enhance their absorption. Dermaplaning will also make a comeback closer to your wedding date to ensure you makeup sits flawlessly on top of smooth, hydrated canvas!
3–4 Weeks Before Your Wedding Day: The Finishing Touches for Flawless, Glowing Skin
In these final few weeks before your wedding, it’s time for delicate finishing touches that ensure your skin looks flawless, refreshed, and beautifully balanced on your special day. This is the ideal window for your last BOTOX® Cosmetic touch-up, allowing any final softening of expression lines to settle naturally so you look relaxed and radiant in every photo. Your Skin Artisans provider may also recommend continuing with gentle, hydrating treatments like a DiamondGlow® or a light, no-downtime peel such as BioRePeel to keep your complexion smooth, dewy, and glowing. These treatments enhance skin clarity, boost hydration, and create a flawless canvas for wedding-day makeup. By this point, you’re not making big changes — just refining, brightening, and perfecting the glow you’ve thoughtfully built over the past several months.
BioRePeel® – Everyone wants that lit-from-within glow just before their big day. It’s even better if it comes without any downtime! BioRePeel is an advanced but gentle, two-phase peel that uses a blend of powerful acids, amino acids, and vitamins to deeply exfoliate the skin while stimulating new collagen production. Unlike traditional peels that require days of peeling or redness, BioRePeel delivers immediate radiance with little to no downtime. It’s ideal for pre-wedding photos, bridal showers, or bachelorette weekends when you want to look your absolute best without taking a single day off from planning. Skin feels soft, supple, and refreshed, and the glow just keeps getting better!
DiamondGlow® + Dermaplaning – The ideal combo that provides the flawless finishing touch before your wedding day! The duo of dermaplaning + Diamaondglow® is the ultimate pre-wedding skin ritual, removing every last trace of dullness and fuzz while infusing your skin with hydration and luminosity. Your makeup will set flawlessly and last, and your complexion will radiate with a fresh glow and vibrancy. It’s like matching how you feel on the inside with the outside!
Don’t Forget Your Bridal Party!
Your bridesmaids, mom, and even your soon-to-be mother-in-law deserve to look and feel amazing on your wedding day too! Invite your crew to schedule consultations with our team as well! We love creating customized plans to help everyone in your circle shine. Whether the mother-of-the-bride wants to look more youthful with BOTOX® and dermal fillers, or your bridesmaids want a quick refresh and glow up the week before your wedding with DiamondGlow, we are here to ensure everyone feels confident and beautiful on your big day.
The Week of Your Wedding: It’s GLOW TIME!
In the final days before your wedding, resist the urge to experiment. This is not the time to introduce anything new to your skincare routine. Instead, focus on hydration, calming the skin, and maintaining the beautiful glow you’ve built. Gentle at-home treatments can make a world of difference this week. Hydrating under-eye patches help depuff and brighten tired eyes, Velez sheet masks deliver a surge of soothing, replenishing moisture, and iS Clinical’s Active Peel System (home care system)the day before your wedding can enhance radiance without irritation. These small, strategic steps ensure your skin stays plump, rested, and photo-ready. Keep things simple, restorative, and familiar. Your only job now is to glide into your big day looking refreshed, luminous, and confident!
*All products mentioned above are available at all Skin Artisan’s locations in Edina, Woodbury, and Minnetonka!
Our Promise to You
Your wedding day is more than just a ceremony; it’s a moment in time you’ll carry with you forever. Every smile, every photo, every look exchanged with your partner will be captured and cherished. At Skin Artisans, we understand how personal and emotional that is. That’s why we take your trust in us to take care of your skin to heart.
From the moment you begin your bridal skincare journey with us, we’re invested in making sure you feel seen, supported, and celebrated. We’ll be your guides, cheerleaders, and skincare experts rolled into one, ensuring your appearance matches the joy you’ll feel when you finally say “I do.”
When that special day arrives and you take one last look in the mirror before walking down the aisle, we want you to see more than just beautiful skin. We want you to see the love, confidence, and self-care that brought you here…glowing from the inside out!
Ready to Start Your Bridal Skincare Journey With Us?
Schedule your complimentary pre-wedding skincare consultation today at any of our Skin Artisans locations in Edina, Minnetonka, or Woodbury, and let’s begin planning your customized bridal skincare timeline! Because when it comes to your big day, you deserve to shine. From fiancée to flawless, and every breathtaking moment in between.
Call us at (952) 767-3163 to schedule or book online.
