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goth

We love gothic weddings so hard. Black wedding dress? Check. Halloween weddings? Check. Haunted venue? Check. Horror weddings? YES. Corpse Bride? Check. Tim Burton? Of course. Skulls? Always.

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Print your wedding vows on scrolls

You probably remember a lot of amazing details from Lady Zombie & Ali Fangsmith’s romantic subculture bash with fangs, leather, and fur, but it’s quite possible that this one escaped your mind. Why print your wedding vows on regular ole paper when you could use scrolls?!

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Create a spooky place card display with flying bats

Cut out bat-shaped place cards, and hang them from dark branches to make them look like they’re in mid-flight!

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Ask a pair of adorable skeletons to be your ushers

Asking real people to be ushers can sometimes be stressful. Real, living humans are unpredictable, ammaright? That’s why Bix and Kim had a great idea… usher skeletons that just held signs reading:

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A Halloween metal concert wedding with a spider wedding bouquet

With pumpkin and spider details, a deliciously gothic black dress, and a hunky, serenading groom, this wedding is super Halloween hotness. Add in the heavy metal cover band, ceremony inside jokes, and skelly cake toppers, and you’ll be in love with this love in no time.

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Use vampire fangs to display your place cards

Looking for an awesome way to display your place cards at your Halloween, horror, vampire, or gothic-themed wedding? Then do what Kari and Rick did at their Halloween wedding. Kari painted vampire fangs silver and placed the cards between the fangs!

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Candy, skulls, and horror movie props: Sounds like it’s Halloween on Offbeat Bride

One of my favorite things about Halloween is the candy; you can just imagine how excited I got over Offbeat Bride Leslie’s Halloween lollipop bouquet. The bouquet was made from lollipops bought at Candy Warehouse, the sticks are covered in pretty printed tapes. There’s more wedding candy, and dark Halloween-themed fun where that came from in this special Halloween week reader round-up!