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renaissance fair weddings

This is our collection of renaissance fair weddings, including tons of renaissance fair wedding dresses, ideas, inspiration, advice and more. HUZZAH!

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Faerie Brides makes custom faerie wedding gowns straight from your imagination

Faerie Brides creates bespoke wedding gowns — specializing in fantasy, fairytale, Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance, vintage, and faerie wedding gowns. She also makes completely custom designs, so the squee-worthy dress possibilities are endless. And she offers some ridiculously great personal service — working with each bride personally, offering individual measurement sessions, telephone consultations, design and fabric options, and worldwide shipping. Custom faerie dresses for ALL!

Let’s look at just a FEW of her amazing wedding dress styles, while you learn how to take advantage of her special freebies for you guys.

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Amanda & Ian’s fairy tale Renaissance wedding

An unfortunate accident forced this couple to reexamine their wedding priorities and led them to their perfect Renaissance Faire wedding. Nothing cures broken bone blues like a horse-drawn carriage, a sword-drawn recessional, and a few gallons of mead.

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Teena & Eddie’s colorful renaissance handfasting in the round

A fabulous red renaissance dress, kilts all around, a squee-worthy mushroom cake, and a dragon ring bearer — it can only mean the cutest little wedding in the round you ever did see. And if you’re unsure of how to include your guests in the ceremony, you’ll want to see how this bride created her bouquet! Oh, and watch out for surprise flying birdseed.

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Michelle & Matt’s royal Texas Ren Fest wedding

This pair thought about going with a more mainstream wedding, but the fantasy and renaissance geeks inside wouldn’t let them abandon their dream renaissance festival wedding. The Texas Ren Fest gave them the opportunity to get garbed, get turkey-legged, and get their renaissance boogie on.

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Raiding the button jar: How to make your own wax seal

Wax seals lend a hand-made touch to invitations, place cards, and other paper-crafted pieces of a wedding. They’re also a simple but gorgeous way to seal your handwritten vows until ceremony time, or to close a love letter for your significant other, all super-romantic-like. Now, make your very own at home with a small handful of supplies.

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Katy & Aaron’s forest handfasting and dance party wedding

When an intimate forest ceremony becomes a Renaissance-inspired dance party reception, it’s been a good day. The bride handmade books as favors, had tiny terrariums as centerpieces, and they served pumpkin pie, too. So far so good. But the addition of a cardboard deer head is the icing on the cake.