Flexibility & hand-holding: 5 tips for having a successful costume wedding
A costume wedding isn’t all that different than a regular wedding. Most weddings are actually costume weddings, unless you wear white formal dresses and tuxedos on a daily basis, which isn’t out of the realm of possibility (and is totally awesome — is your work hiring?).
But for these instructions are for a full-on costume wedding, in which you ask the wedding party and guests to dress up around a specific theme. And here is how you can successfully pull that off…
Spookily delicious Halloween wedding cakes
This Jason and Freddy Kruger wedding cake just blew my mind. It also made me think… what OTHER incredible Halloween-themed wedding cakes do we have in our archives. The answer: a shit ton and they’re all impressive, a little bit spooky, and more than likely delicious.
Joey & Wade’s crowdsourced zombie wedding
Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. This time around it’s a couple who met at a Zombie Walk, so the theme was inevitable. Zombies, natch, but also an Elvis minister and a unicorn ring bearer! Plus, the officiant started the ceremony with “Brains. Brains brains brains brains brains.” A total must-read.
Dramatic Halloween makeup looks for scary good weddings
YouTuber SarahVictor has a wordless tutorial for a stark and vein-y zombie look that I LOVE. It’s almost a more vivid version of this zombie look from Killer Colours. Here are a few great Halloween tutorials that could totally transition into amazing wedding looks, either at full volume or pared down to your style.