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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17 Feb
I often find links to wonderful, wacky and amazing weddings and wedding goodies around the web, and I try to compile them into a handy list of inspiration for you. So here goes:
I love Bret and Louise’s quirky Australian wedding. This dress is so pretty, and I don’t like white dresses.
Bowie Bride. Best new wedding blog. The title says it all.
Steampunk meets anthropologie. An amazing aesthetic wedding shoot from Christine Farah. Wow.
Ariel from offbeat bride gives us all something to ponder in Fear-Mongering and You’ll seeeeee
Objects in the Mirror: Another interesting look at the fashion industry, though the eyes of reality TV.
A Practical Wedding wrote an incredibly kind and well-thought... »View More
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
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
23 Nov
Amazing steampunk wedding couple!
I saw this amazing wedding on Offbeat Bride today – Ingi and Jay’s neo-Victorian, Steampunk, black and white, garden wedding. I know lots of you are planning Steampunk weddings, and I love seeing pictures of how they turn out.
This particular wedding was held at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum – how rad is that? It’s full of wonderful steamy detailing and loving friends. I especially love the brides wonderful answer to the question “What was your biggest challenge?”
I must say the biggest challenge of the day was when I managed to set myself on fire during the cocktail hour. My dress caught flame while I was in the kitchenette... »View More
3 Nov
Lots of Skully Brides and Grooms celebrating Halloween by getting hitched. For your pleasure, links to some of the awesomest Halloween wedding bling around the web:
Offbeat Bride has been featuring Halloween Weddings all month long: You might recognise the couple getting married at this Haunted Heavy Metal Viking Wedding of Epicness.
What do you think of this story? An Elmsford couple’s Halloween Wedding was not allowed at Sleepy Hollow church. On the one hand, I always think it’s sad when people misinterpret gothic / Halloween weddings as jokes, and the people that choose them as Satanists. On the other hand, if you’re having a wedding in a church, even a church in a haunted town, you... »View More
14 Aug
Via Nicole Weston at Baking Bites, a tutorial and recipe for these awesome vampire cupcakes!
Vampire Cupcakes!
Nicole’s got dozens of other tutorials for DIY halloween treats, including Vampire Cookies, Halloween Treat ideas, and these adorable gingerbread skeletons!
If you’re even remotely interested in baking I suggest you check out Nicole’s blog. She’s always posting unique and delicious recipes, as well as tips and news from the world of baking and recipe book reviews. Nicole is one smart cookie (sorry, couldn’t resist) who holds a BA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley as well as a professional pastry certificate from the LA New School of Cooking.
She does all the... »View More
30 Jun
East Side Bride wrote a fantastic rant the other day about judging people by their wedding budgets.
A lot of judging goes on in wedding forums and on wedding blogs. It used to be that holier-than-thou attitude extended towards the types of people who read this blog (alternative couples planning non-traditional weddings, often on a serious budget) but now the shoe is on the other foot. Low budget brides are calling out their high-priced sisters, saying that spending too much money on the wedding means not investing enough in the marriage.
I don’t have to tell y’all that this just plain sucks. No one should be dissing ANYONE’S wedding, budget or extravagent or gothic or swam-themed... »View More
8 Jun
[intlink id="620" type="post" /]Since yesterday’s post was all about amazing gothic cupcakes, I thought I’d show you some … well, NOT so amazing cakes.
I found this awesome website – it’s good for a giggle.
Ugliest Wedding Cakes Ever
My all time favorites are the dying dolphins and the foaming beer foundtain. Priceless!
For more wedding cake madness, have a look over at Cake Wrecks – one of my secret vices. They’ve recently done a feature on weird wedding cakes.
Tacky Weddings also stock some amazing wedding cake disasters.
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