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I think you BOTH should talk to the wedding photographer about color depth. You will look better in pictures with a natural color than tan. Also if she tans her brains out and you are natural...it looks terrible on both of you.
I would not use that self tanner stuff until you test it far before the wedding. It takes time to fade and most brands look orange.
While the spray tanning is easy, I dont like the way it looks between your fingers, it seems to look dirty. Also, after spray tanning you must wipe youe fingernails because it will not look good. Your knees and elbows need moisturizer because the sin there has a slightly different texture than the rest of your body.
I would rather regular tanning.
Not to be a preacher but just food for thought......, I used to do tanning 3 times a week after the gym, for 11 years, while I was always tan and dark, I am no longer allowed to do it.
just attended a wedding where the bride and all the bridesmaids got spray tanned. It looked completely natural and not at all overdone. If you go to a professional, you shouldn't have a problem with unnatural coloring or tan color where it doesn't belong (e.g., between fingers, etc.) Don't go to a tanning bed--it is highly carcinogenic. Take it from someone who has already had squamous cell skin carcinoma in my early 40s. Ultra violet light will kill you or at least disfigure you, I have the surgery scars to prove it.
Tanning would be great for foreign people, i don't like the idea to go under the sun because it might cause you to skin cancer. Yes better natural but you should look the benefit you can get.
I don't tan, but I'll use the gradual self tanning lotion (not self tanner, but lotion with self tanner in it.) and I think it works fine. It takes the edge off pasty skin, but isn't labor intensive or fake-looking.
Prettiest bride I've ever seen had a light, peaches 'n' cream complexion. I think it'd be a mistake for the both of you to get very tanned if you are not sun-worshippers. You will not look like yourselves in your photos. Perhaps you could get "just enough" tan to give you a healthy glow without looking several tones darker.
Ordinarily, I'd advocate getting a light fake tan, but if it's botched there won't be time to fix it, and (if I were the bride) I would worry about bleeding color on my dress. Also, the OP wants a base tan so he won't be pasty white and burning on his honeymoon. That's valid. I think if you go to a better salon (not a $5 tan place staffed with high school students) and tell them what you need, they can help you get some light color. Just don't go Pat Sajak on yourself.
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