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A steampunk soiree with an amazingly detailed cake

Jenny from Moondance Photography may have been new to steampunk before photographing this wedding, but she got schooled! Victorian science fiction meets cyber punk is not something to be forgotten once you’ve experienced it. There were gears on the shoes and in the boutinnieres, top hats, vintage decor, and a steampunk cake with more details than you can imagine.

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Turn small pumpkins into vases for your floral centerpieces

We hosted a party at our house, and I decided that this would be a great opportunity to test out the cost and time effectiveness of my DIY centerpiece idea: flowers in a real pumpkin vase. Here’s how I pulled it off…

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Katie & Jesse’s outdoor Halloween shindig

Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. Here we a rare sunny Washington wedding with a singing groom, lots of spray paint, and an adorable father of the bride.

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A skull-filled Halloween wedding with on-site ring tattoos

Michelle and Shaun planned a Dia de los Muertos-meets-Halloween-meets heavy metal wedding with barbecue, kegs of beer, papier-mâché masks, and skull details. And get this, they got ring tattoos… AT THE WEDDING!