
The engagement glow
You've just said yes. Now come the photographs, announcements, dinners and celebrations. Create your first bridal glow and begin discovering what color feels most like you.
Your first bridal appointment
From engagement photos to the honeymoon, create a natural, luminous glow that's thoughtfully planned around your skin, your events, your makeup, your dress and your photography.
Private appointments·Santa Cruz·Expert color matching·Established 2007
Your wedding will be photographed from every angle. Your dress will reveal more than your everyday wardrobe. Your skin will be seen beside white, ivory, champagne and delicate fabrics. Your makeup will be professionally matched to your complexion. And the photographs will live with you for years. That's why bridal tanning deserves more than a quick appointment.
It should be tested first, then planned.
A wedding spray tan works the same way as any other appointment. Every deSoleil tan is custom: Jana matches the formula and depth to your skin and applies it by hand, as she has since 2007. What changes for a wedding is the planning around it. You see your color on a trial first, so the final appointment, timed to the ceremony, holds no surprises.
Vacations, weekends, dinners, dates, parties, holidays, special occasions and everyday confidence.
The goal
Engagement photos, engagement parties, bridal showers, bachelorette weekends, destination events, rehearsal dinners, the wedding day and the honeymoon.
The goal
Fourteen chapters. A glow planned for each one.

You've just said yes. Now come the photographs, announcements, dinners and celebrations. Create your first bridal glow and begin discovering what color feels most like you.
Your first bridal appointment
Your engagement session is usually the first time a professional photographs the two of you. An engagement photo spray tan shows you how your color reads on camera, which tells you a lot about what you'll want for the wedding.
Book 1 to 2 days before
The image your guests will keep on the fridge for months. Plan your color around the shoot so it matches the tone you're building toward.
Book 1 to 2 days before
An intimate dinner or a larger celebration, your first official wedding event deserves its own polished glow.
Book 1 to 2 days before
See your gown against your skin before the day itself. A fitting is a quiet preview of how your color reads beside ivory, white or champagne fabric.
Book 1 to 2 days before
Soft, feminine and luminous. Perfect for photographs with your mother, sisters, bridesmaids and friends.
Book 1 to 2 days before
Close, private and intimately photographed. Even, believable color with natural dimension matters most when the camera is this near.
Book 1 to 2 days before
Beach weekend. Poolside. Dinner. Dancing. Girls' trip. Plan your glow around the entire weekend, and coordinate your bridal party if desired.
Book 1 to 2 days before
Traveling for your bachelorette? Planning a destination wedding? Your tanning schedule can be planned around travel, activities, events and your destination.
Planned around your travel
The first evening with everyone in one place. Your glow should already be settled and looking like your own skin.
Book 1 to 2 days before
The night before the wedding is another major photographic moment. Your rehearsal-dinner wardrobe may be completely different from your wedding dress. Your glow should work beautifully with both.
Covered by your final tan
This is where everything comes together. Your skin has been considered. Your color has been tested. Your desired depth has been established. Your timing has been planned. There is no guessing. Your wedding-day color builds on everything you've already learned at deSoleil.
2 to 3 days before · never the night before
Coffee, family and the first stories of the night before. Your wedding color carries into the morning after.
Carried from your final tan
The wedding may be over, and your color can carry on. A honeymoon spray tan is timed to your departure and destination. A tan lasts 7 to 14 days depending on prep, aftercare and how much time you spend in the ocean or the pool.
Planned around departureOne bride. One beautiful story. A glow for every chapter.
Your wedding-day result should not be an experiment.
Your first appointment shows how your skin takes the color and which depth you like. Schedule it any time at least two weeks before the wedding, so it has fully faded before your final tan.
At least two weeks before the weddingAssess how the color develops. Consider undertone, hydration and personal preference. Adjust where necessary.
After the trial developsCoordinate your final appointment around ceremony, photography, rehearsal, makeup, travel and honeymoon.
Events: 1 to 2 days before eachYour final tan uses everything the trial showed you, applied 2 to 3 days before the ceremony.
2 to 3 days before · never the night before
On wedding morning, your skin becomes the canvas for professional makeup.
Foundation. Contour. Blush. Highlight. Photography.
That's why bridal tanning belongs in your overall beauty plan. Your custom color is planned with your foundation match, makeup style, dress and the light at your venue in mind, so your makeup artist is working with your complexion rather than around it.
Custom tan◆Makeup◆Photography
Your trial can happen any time at least two weeks before the wedding. Your final tan comes 2 to 3 days before the ceremony, never the night before.
Choose a date and your plan appears here.

Nearly two decades as a private, appointment-only studio, using Infinity Sun formulas from the first day. Your trial and your final tan are both done by Jana, so the person applying your wedding-day color has already seen how your skin develops. Your tan is custom to your skin, whatever its tone, and every bridal plan takes in:
◆ Undertone◆ Natural skin tone◆ Desired depth◆ Hydration◆ Age & skin texture◆ Your dress◆ Wedding colors◆ Photography◆ Event timeline◆ Honeymoon
Natural doesn't mean barely there. It means beautifully believable.

Nobody in the wedding party needs to match. A bridesmaid spray tan is chosen for her own skin the same way yours is, so everyone looks like themselves and the group still photographs well together.
Bridesmaids, groomsmen, maid of honor, mothers of the couple, sisters, close family, flower girls and junior bridesmaids. Appointments are scheduled around your events so each person develops in time.
deSoleil gift cards make a considered bridal party gift, redeemable for their own pre-wedding appointment.
You don't have to figure this out yourself. There's a process for this.
Color is chosen to suit your natural undertone, not simply to make you darker. The trial lets you see the result on your own skin, in daylight, weeks before it matters.
Your depth is settled during the trial. If you'd like the wedding color lighter, Jana adjusts the formula or your rinse time for the final tan.
The goal is even, believable color with natural dimension. If you tan before your engagement photos, you will already know how it reads on camera.
That's exactly why the trial exists. The appointment takes about twenty minutes, you stand the whole time, and you leave knowing what the wedding tan will feel like.
Prep makes the biggest difference here. Gentle glove exfoliation at every shower, plenty of water and regular moisturizing in the weeks before keep the color even, and skipped prep can show in the result. Read the Bronze Protocol
You don't need to arrive knowing. The formula is chosen in a conversation about your skin, undertone, schedule and the depth you're after, and it can change at the final appointment if the trial suggests something different.
“I’ve never felt more comfortable in a studio. Jana has this incredible way of matching your skin so perfectly that you just feel like the best version of yourself, not like you’re wearing a tan.”
Editorial client
“The development is so even and natural. I was worried about my wedding dress, but the deSoleil result was absolute perfection.”
Bride
“The technical artistry is evident in every minor detail. My skin remains deeply moisturized, and the color is elegant yet transformative.”
Long-term client
Any time at least two weeks before the wedding. That gives the trial color time to fade completely before your final tan, and leaves room to change anything you'd like.
It isn't required, but it's the surest way to know your wedding color ahead of time. It matters most if you've never had a spray tan or want a different depth than usual.
No. Every deSoleil tan is a custom spray tan, matched to your skin and applied by hand. What a wedding adds is the planning: a trial first, then a final tan timed to your ceremony.
Your tan becomes part of the complexion your makeup artist matches foundation to. Let your artist know you'll be tanned, so the match is made for your wedding-day color.
2 to 3 days before the ceremony, never the night before. Every formula develops over about 24 hours, and Jana gives you a personal rinse time at the appointment, so the color has settled well before you dress. Read the Bronze Protocol
Book one to two days before each event, since every formula develops over about 24 hours. Shimmer Hydration washes off with the first shower, so shimmer for an event means a short return visit.
Yes. A bridesmaid spray tan is chosen for her own skin, not matched to yours. Bridesmaids, groomsmen, mothers of the couple and the rest of your wedding party can be scheduled around your events.
Yes. The formula and depth are chosen for each person's skin and undertone, so there's no single bridal shade. On deeper skin the aim is often even tone and luminosity rather than more depth.
No. The trial is where you find out how your skin takes color and what the appointment feels like, well before the date that counts.
The color washes out of most fabrics, though that can't be guaranteed. With your final tan 2 to 3 days before the ceremony, you'll have rinsed and showered well before the dress goes on.
Three tans in Bronze Organics or Rapid Development plus one Normalize pre-treatment, for $219. Use them for your trial, your final tan or any event in between. The package is valid for 12 months and is non-refundable.
The package covers the appointments most weddings need: three tans in Bronze Organics or Rapid Development, plus one Normalize pH-balancing pre-treatment. Use them however your timeline works, for the trial, an engagement shoot, the final tan or anything else on the calendar.
If you've just said yes, start with a trial. If the wedding is only a few weeks away, call or text and Jana will work out what fits the time you have.
Online booking closes 12 hours ahead · Same-day tans by call or text, (831) 479-8266

You won't remember the shade number. You won't remember the appointment. You'll remember how you felt.
Beautiful. Confident. Completely yourself.