3 Mar
I have never been a huge fan of wedding veils, personally. It’s just not my style. My sister had a cute little one, just popped in underneath her bun, with a beautiful headpiece and birdcase pinned into her hair. It was so understaed and beautiful. On her. On me, veils just never seemed to work.
I wanted a circlet, and I looked everywhere for the perfect one. I found it, for $1000. Eeep.
I kept looking, but I didn’t find my gorgeous circlet until I discovered Dress of Your Dreams, the site from which I brought my amazing dress. I happened to glance at their accessories section, and there she was.
No one commented on my lack of a veil. They were too busy ooohing over our clothing and... »View More
19 Feb
Nowadays, we all need to be conscious about the amount of waste we produce. Huge events like weddings contribute rubbish to landfills and pollution. But your wedding doesn’t have to. Here are a few ideas to not only save the environment with your wedding, but to save yourself some money, too.
Cut back on the paper consumables
A wedding with 100 guests might include save-the-date cards, multi-page invitations with maps, registry cards, RSVP cards, dress codes and information guides for out-of-towners, programs, seating cards, menus, guestbook pages, napkins, placecards, favor tags, favor boxes, cake boxes, thank you cards, thank you postcards, change of address cards and “go to the photographers... »View More
10 Feb
Dear Wedding Skulls
We’re having a smallish (80) people wedding in our backyard. The theme is Gothic pagan fairy tale. We have a folk band playing and its gonna be heaps of fun.
Should we have a wedding registry? My mum says we have to and without one no one will know what to buy us, but I’m not sure. What do you think?
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Wedding registries. Ick. I hates them.
Generally speaking, people accept that a wedding is an occasion to bring a gift. they expect it, they plan for it as soon as they get the invite in the mail.
However, it’s impolite to imply, especially ON the invitation, that gifts are to be expected. And that’s just what those little registry cards the stores... »View More
5 Feb
Medieval weddings have a certain magic, a touch of faerie in the air. So many of our notions of medieval matrimony are tied up in the tales of Auther and Guinivere, knights and chivelry and fantasy novels.
The starting point for anyone planning a medieval (or other historical period) wedding is the source material and history books. A little reading would reveal the reality of medieval marriage is much different to the fantasy.
The Church performed marriages, and any marriage had to be sanctioned by them. In 1076, the Council of Westminster decreed that a man could not marry his daughters or sisters without the blessing of the Church. However, it wasn’t until the 16th century that a marriage... »View More
29 Jan
I know Wedding Skulls readers love anything a little different from the “normal” wedding stuff, so I’ve been thinking about alternatives to the boring guestbook. At our wedding, we have a notebook my mum found in a hippy shop, with a resin cover moulded like a demonic Necronomicon, and a skull pen magnetically attached to the cover. It’s awesome.
A guest book is meant to be a memento for you, so you can look back and remember who came, and read the lovely wishes they wrote for you on your wedding day. I’m a big fan of guestbooks that let guests be as creative as possible, because I think that makes for a fun book to look back on. Perhaps you’ll enjoy one of... »View More
20 Jan
Steampunk – the meshing together of Victorian sensibilities and science-fiction. The aesthetic of aether and brass, of steamships and Air Pirates, of death and glory and mother England.
In the last few years, Steampunk has taken to world by storm – not just as a subgenre of science-fiction movies, books and games, but as a lifestyle and a subcultural aesthetic. Like Gothic, but more adventurous and playful, steampunk fuses whimsy and darkness in a perfect blend of awesome.
So it’s no wonder that Steampunk weddings are the hottest subcultural event since the class visit to the train museum. All over the world, couples are embracing the magic of the Victorian age to marry in... »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
21 Dec
Dear Wedding Skulls
I LOVE Christmas – it’s such a magical time of the year. Every Christmas I feel like there’s the surreal faery dust in the air. It’s just amazing.
I want to get married at Christmas, preferably on Christmas eve but at the very least two or three days before Christmas. My husband thinks it’s kind of silly, but he’s happy to go along with it.
When we told my parents, they had a COW! They couldn’t believe we’d want to get married the week of Christmas. “Everyone will have to travel during the Christmas rush to get to your wedding!” They said, “The holidays are stressful enough without having a wedding too!” “If you have it on Christmas Eve, no one will... »View More
13 Dec
Hello, poor neglected wedding blog. My, how I have missed you!
Two good friends of mine are getting married soon, in a smallish ceremony with gothic overtones. They have one beautiful daughter, and another child on the way.
This raised the question in my mind. How do you include children in the wedding who haven’t been born yet?
The taboo against been married while pregnant (thereby rubbing in the face of all your well-mannered guests that you DID in fact do the dirty before the vows) still exists in most western society. And while us alternative types think this is all silliness, it might not be silliness to some of the guests you intend on inviting.
If this is the case with your little lump... »View More
11 Nov
CDH and I are moving into a new house in 16 days. This is the first time we will be living in a house without flatmates, so all the interior decorating falls to me (this is not a bad thing). I’m thinking a lot about how to tie the somewhat worn furniture we have to the fresh, new, gorgeous house we will be habitating. I’ve been wondering about themes, and that got me on to thinking about wedding themes.
I’ve always been of the school of thought that any event – especially an event as large and important to you as a wedding – needs a theme, if for no other reason then to tie your thoughts together in your mind, and help you decide which of your seven-million ideas... »View More
