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…
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.
Curiouser and curiouser: it’s an Alice in Wonderland wedding
Nicole and Mike had an Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding complete with flower girl and ring bearer costumes, mushroom and teacup centerpieces, and the bride’s handmade blue dress (complete with lacy pantaloons!). Mike channeled his inner Mad Hatter too. The wedding was held at Darby House in Galloway, OH and was the perfect outdoor backdrop to this theme.
A zombie masquerade with Waldo and a disembodied finger (aka a Halloweeny Monday Montage)
The Halloween wedding of “Zombie and Vamps” had an excellent guest book in the form of a hand-drawn illustration. And you know what jack-o-lanterns in the Monday Montage means: HALLOWEEN WEEK IS HERE! Now on to the best spooky, creepy, and gory submissions from the Offbeat Bride Flickr Pool, Pinterest, and the Offbeat Bride Tribe.
Nicole & Damien’s gothic handfasting Halloween party
Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. Today it’s gothic style and awesome costumes including a giant banana (if you know what I mean… wait, that’s not what I mean).