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Firstly the bride should decide it unless she has no clue - it is her wedding after all.  Secondly the colour should go well with the outfit. I assume you are wearing a white wedding dress so I think nothing to dark - not much darker than the current shade. Furthermore no fancy colours like blue red green  etc Thirdly you can have a mix where some strands are lighter colour and others are darker. Finally the hairstyle shape is also important and plays a bigger role on the look than just the colour.  Images for inspiration:  mixed colour 

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My sister and I tested hair shades after dinner because she wants a modest update before her wedding. She is currently dark blonde, and she does not want guests to notice a sudden or theatrical change. The difficulty is that one sample looks much darker in phone photographs, so everyone reaches a different conclusion. One relative prefers a brighter blonde, while the photographer advised keeping the overall contrast familiar. We decided to stop voting from separate screenshots and compare the same references on the same phone display. Her dress is muted cream, and the ceremony includes both a dim room and outdoor portraits. That combination makes consistency across lighting more important than chasing a fashionable label. We used soft summer hair color as a shared reference. Next we will photograph three hair swatches in late-afternoon light. The stylist can then judge whether subtle lowlights is the safest choice. We also plan to keep the dress fabric nearby during the test. How can we keep family opinions from outweighing the stylist's evidence?

When a wall is being attacked, the units positioned on it would defend it of course. They will be eventually killed by the attacker and replacing them feels a bit fiddly (to me at last). Would it be possible to move units laterally along a wall towards the actual attack replacing fallen units? (this could happen from segment to segment, we could e.g. even replenish from the barracks to auto-replace a fallen defender using some auto-queue mechanism). Not sure it would work as between wall segments there are turrets that have a different garrisoning scheme. Would "teleporting from wall segment to segment be a solution (using the rally point mechanism) ? Such a feature might strenghten defense and actual use of walls, but not in an unfair fashion- siege engines would still be much more powerful and eventually break the walling. This would be more a slightly better defense against infantry/cavalry troops attacking.   A side note: the same pathfinding mechanism might be useful some time later when it comes to discussing (short) bridges again     

Another thing I mentioned could be considered is the temple of Athena Chalkioikos (mentioned by Pausanias in https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aentry%3Dsparta-geo), which was their most important temple. Chalkioikos means copper or bronze house, apparently it was internally decorated with bronze sheets, while there's "Euripides' mention of χαλκόπνλος, 'she of the Bronze Gates'" (from The Importance of Bronze in Early Greek Religion, by S. Constantinidou), so I wonder if a temple with shiny opened bronze gates revealing a shiny interior could be a possibility. Sadly, it's quite hard to reconstruct, since there's almost nothing to work with, but I've considered "an exterior peristyle, characteristic of Doric architecture. The temple's construction utilized local limestone, and evidence suggests that it was adorned with bronze sculptures and offerings" (https://madainproject.com/sparta#sanctuary-of-athena-chalkioikos), "the marble upper body of a hoplite (480–470 BC), which is now on display in the Museum of Sparta and has been identified with Leonidas was found around the temple. According to some archaeologists it was probably part of the sculptural complex of the temple" (https://realsparta.gr/en-us/What-to-do/Archaelogical-Sites-Monuments/Sparta-Acropolis), and "the volume of bronze objects at Athena Chalkioikos, including weapons, tools and votive artifacts, suggests that this Spartan sanctuary held a special place in local production, where religious devotion intertwined with economic activity" (from The Historical Review of Sparta, edited by G. Piras and R. Sassu R), among other things.