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Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com.
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The goth headpiece of our dark and stormy day dreams

We’ll soon be sharing Brittany and Taylor’s goth history nerd wedding featuring an amazing Cthulhu cake, nerd burlesque, and some epic goth fashion. The latter of which is our current interest that we couldn’t wait to preview. Brittany’s ship headpiece was made by Kopf Traeume, who also makes FABULOUS headpieces with horns, feathers, bird cages, and tons of flora. The rest of the wedding is going to knock your socks off, but we’ll get to that later. For now, you get a sneaky peeky of this goth headpiece of our dark wonderland dreams.

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17 printable gift boxes for wedding cake favors

We had some discussion on our Facebook page recently about this post for saving money on favors. One conclusion was this: why are folks not giving away free cake as their favor? It’s already included in your budget (if you’re going with cake, of course), and all you need is a favor box or baggie to slap around it. Done and done. I rounded up some rad-as-hell printable gift boxes that would totally work for wedding cake favors. Don’t miss the vintage camper, geometric hearts, apple boxes, and circus big tops!

Groom's Legend of Zelda ceremony entrance music rocks -- as seen on @offbeatbride #wedding #zelda

Groom’s tunes: dudes need killer ceremony entrance music, too!

Dejah and Ronald’s ceremony was video game music-themed so you can only imagine how geektasticly delicious their entrances were. The only catch was the flack they’d get whenever they’d mention the groom’s entrance music. Groom’s can have customized entrance music, too, ya’ll! Let’s see what Dejah had to say about Ronald’s instrumental Legend of Zelda entrance. It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.

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This Roy Croft aisle runner brings poetry right to our feet

Kate and Marc wanted their wedding to be about their story and the things that bring them joy: downtown Portland, their kitties, board games, video games, wrestling (WWE!), and craft beer. They made a dash for a local bar that had tons of arcade games as well as gaming systems for some pictures and Mortal Kombat, and they announced their wedding party and themselves in full WWE inspired outfits. The wedding itself was killer, but we are SO digging one particular detail: their aisle runner that had Roy Croft’s poem, “Love” written all over it. Take a peek at that and a few more details from their sweet gamer wedding.