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.)
Philadelphia cemetery wedding with a goth twist
Nina and Chris’s Philadelphia cemetery wedding blended gothic glamour with heartfelt intimacy. Dressed in black beneath Laurel Hill Cemetery’s historic trees, they exchanged vows in a self-uniting ceremony that included their dog, Loki, and an unexpected cat in a bat costume. With gargoyle shoes, crimson florals, and a Morimoto reception, their day proved gothic weddings can be full of joy.
A woodland fairy wedding theme inspired by Lord of the Rings
Rachel and Nick’s woodland fairy wedding at The Maples Estate was blessed with a drizzly day that was just what the couple called for. Nick’s parents celebrated their wedding with rain, and it was so fitting for this Lord of the Rings loving couple to have drizzly, moody photos to match their ethereal, woodsy aesthetic.
No priest, just potions & puzzles: this handfasting was pure nerd magic
What do you get when you mix Dungeons & Dragons, handmade potions, a raven feather quest, two jade rings, and a pair of puzzle-loving weirdos in all black? You get Rose and Blackwell’s New Hampshire handfasting: part sacred rite, part escape room, all heart.