Exclusive | Im spending $62K on my bridal glow up just dont tell my hubby-to-be

The first thought that popped into Jade Voight’s head after getting proposed to by her longtime beau wasn’t where her wedding would be or the color of her bridesmaids’ dresses.It was where on her calendar the 30-year-old could book her first of many beauty appointments to get head to toe “bridal ready” for her big day.Within weeks of getting engaged, the makeup artist scheduled an appointment to overhaul her entire skincare routine, signed up for a costly pilates membership, planned out her Botox and filler appointments for the next three to four months — and at one point even considered getting a $25,000 breast augmentation.“This is one of the most precious moments in our lives to spend with friends and family, and we want to look and feel our best… These photos are forever.

You want your kids to be like, ‘My mom was hot,'” she explained to The Post.After crunching the numbers, Voight estimates she will spend “in the high six figures” for her dreamy 2027 Tuscan villa wedding — $62,000 of which will go towards beauty prep.“I really just took this opportunity to be like, ‘Ok, these are the things I don’t love about myself — I want to love them about myself for my wedding.”Voight isn’t alone in feeling this way.Many of today’s almost-Mrs, especially New York and New Jersey ones, are upping the aesthetic ante, spending eight to 15 percent of their $49,000, $57,000 and sometimes $100,000 wedding budgets on beauty services, according to PJ’s College of Cosmetology and The Knot.And social media might be to blame.

The #bridalglowup on TikTok has thousands of videos, titled “10 things I do everyday so I look snatched for my wedding” and “5 wedding prep must-dos to glow up,” showing engaged women taking extreme measures a year out from their wedding to look “their hottest” when standing at the altar.When embarking on her glow-up journey, the first order of business for Voight was addressing her perpetual under-eye circl...