Chihuahua bouquet and a vintage Corvette: This backyard Halloween wedding is the ultimate DIY treat
From a puppy serving as a bouquet to a red-velvet reception change, this backyard Florida celebration traded traditional polish for high-impact DIY details and a 2000s vintage aesthetic.
An LGBTQ+ gothic elopement in the Scottish woods (…WITH FIRE!)
Kendal and Lake skipped the wedding industrial complex and went straight into the woods. From Alabama to a storm-soaked corner of Perthshire, Scotland they built an elopement around fire, water, moss, and intention. Gothic fashion, Celtic-inspired rituals, and a river vow sealed at dusk made this less a performance and more a reckoning with place, weather, and commitment.
This spooky renaissance faire wedding had the cutest mushroom wedding cake!
If your idea of a dream wedding involves pumpkins, swords, medieval music, and guests who actually understand the assignment when you say “fantasy garb,” you’re in the right place. This wedding is nerdy, intentional, deeply DIY, and refreshingly unconcerned with whether any of this would make sense to your aunt who still thinks themed weddings are “a phase.” (Also yes, the mushroom wedding cake is objectively adorable… and possibly sentient.)
Tons of gothic wedding decor ideas at this laidback motorbike-fueled Samlesbury Hall wedding
A coffin as the ceremony centerpiece? Yep. Mollie and Richard hosted a Gothic wedding at haunted Samlesbury Hall that was all edge and zero fluff. They ditched the cake, rode in on a motorbike-fueled love story, and replaced stressful traditions with axe throwing and free tattoos for the guests. This is how you take a “‘Til Death” theme and make it an unapologetic, laidback, punk-rock rager.