5 Mar
For your viewing pleasure, I give you another collection of fine wedding cakes of epicness.
ghost halloween wedding cake
Wow, an amazing pumpkin wedding cake
The World's Cutest Bat Halloween Cake!
I love the modernist design of this. It looks like it should belong in an art gallery.
ghosts, ghosts, everywhere!
Alternative Wedding Cakes is now a regular feature here on wedding skulls. Looking at delicious, crazy, and weird wedding cakes is one of the best parts of being a wedding blogger. I just wish I get to eat them, too.
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27 Jan
The wedding cake – the centrepiece of the evening’s festivities. The sight the first greets your guests as they enter the reception hall. The towering effigy of fondant and buttercream. For the alternative bride, a wedding cake doesn’t have to be a tiered bundle of white and pink icing flowers – she can have skulls and bats and cobwebs and polka dots and crooked cakes and chainsaw massacres and anything she wants! Given these stunning beauties, it’s a wonder any couple choose to go with the old school white tower anymore.
I’ve been compiling a file of wedding cake inspirations, so you shall be seeing many more cake inspiration posts over the next year. I may... »View More
22 Jan
If you’ve been hunting around the online gothic couture shops for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of Azrael’s Accomplice. Both Azrael’s Accomplice and AZAC Designs (a “less gothy” line of gowns and eveningwear) are the children of designer Tracy Robertson, often called by her nickname Batty. If you’re looking for that perfect gothic wedding dress, or even just a gothic gown to wear on an evening out, you might want to check out Azrael’s Accomplice.
Tracy has been creating stunning alternative clothing for over ten years, and her history as a costume designer shows through in her dramatic gowns and corsets.
The Azrael’s Accomplice line features Tracy’s high-end... »View More
15 Jan
If you’re looking for feathered head-attire for a gothic wedding or, perhaps, a woodland fantasy or faery revel, you might consider these delightful beauties designed by of Pegasus Maiden. I found these lovelies through Etsy, but they also operate a website which features a wider selection, including some seriously kickass clothing and stockings. They’ve even got a few Gothic Lolita-inspired pieces.
I love how their designs are quite understated, so the coloured feathers really pop. If you were debating an alternative to the wedding veil but thought everything else you’d seen was a bit too out-there, these sweet fascinators/headdresses might change your mind. I think the top... »View More
13 Jan
It’s been a long time since I featured a steampunk business here on wedding skulls, but that time is at an end. Aerin of Royal Steamline contacted me months ago, but I’ve been horribly slack about putting this interview together. But finally, here it is. I know you’ll love Royal Steamline’s collection of vintage-inspired dark, macabre and steampunk wedding invitations.
Who is Royal Steamline and what do you do?
Royal Steamline is a husband-and-wife design team based in Portland, Oregon. We create wedding invitations that have a dark, clockwork or otherwise retro/vintage flavor. Through a subtle (and sometimes anachronistic) combination of shadows, textures and vintage... »View More
8 Jan
You might not know this, but my favorite part of wedding planning isn’t the dresses, or the invitations, or the photography – it’s the wedding cakes. And gothic / halloween wedding cakes absolutely WIN when it comes to unique, beautiful cake designs.
I share with you now a few pictures from my internet perusings. I don’t have sources for any of these pictures, so if you know from whence they came, please let me know so I can correctly attribute these talented cake designers.
Will you be having a gothic or halloween wedding cake? What have you chosen as an inspiration? Would you like to see MORE pictures of beautiful gothic wedding cakes? (I have more. So many more.)
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16 Dec
What dark alternative wedding website would be complete without a little corset porn?
Nina, by Angels Carrying Savage Weapons
Angels Carry Savage Weapons is a UK-based corset company founded in 2005 by designers Lindsay and Lee Fidler. All the patterns are cut in their Nottinghamshire studio. Each corset is handmade to order and designed to minimize your waist between 2-4 inches. You won’t find any ill-fitting, plastic-boned, faux-corsetry here.
Angels Carrying Savage Weapons’ corset designs give a beautiful silhouette. The elegant, unique designs hint at the erotic.
Ava, by Angels Carrying Savage Weapons
Their bridalwear collection contains several stunning emsembles, like the Siren and... »View More
4 Aug
To garter or not to garter? It’s a bit of an odd question, really. The whole garter-tossing ceremony seems rather strange and outdated to me – which is why we didn’t partake of it. I wasn’t going to wear a garter, but my dress lady sent me one as a free gift – a gorgeous red and black lace garter with skull beads on it. So awesome.
ALMOST as awesome as the amazing punk rock garters from Peterene Designs, makers of vintage and theme wedding garters and accessories.
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26 May
I’m truly honoured to welcome a rad lady to Wedding Skulls today. Elizabeth Fournier is visiting us as part of a blog tour to promote her new book ‘All Men are Cremated Equal’, which I recommend you all go and pick up as it looks tremendously funny.
After fleeing the not-quite-man-of-her-dreams at the age of 35, Elizabeth embarked upon a unique experiment, attending and rating 77 blind dates over the course of 12 months, in her search for Mr. Right. Her unusual job as a mortician makes for some awkward and humorous moments.
I especially love this quote from her FAQ page:
Did you always want to be a mortician?
After I got over my dream of being a Solid Gold Dancer, I promptly... »View More
14 May
Dear Wedding Skulls
Help! We’re planning an awesomely dark, fun gothic wedding. We’re super excited about it. But my grandmother (who’s born-again Christian uber religious) . She has a problem with the venue (our favourite club downtown), the ceremony, the dress (red corset and black skirt), the music, the invitation, EVERYTHING. She thinks we’re mocking the whole institution of marriage because our cake topper has two skeletons on it, for Cthulhu’s sake! She’s getting to my mother, who wants us to ‘tone down’ all our awesome plans! What can I do?
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Eeek. What CAN you do? It’s nice to think your relatives will be there to love and... »View More
