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steampunk

We featured our first steampunk wedding back in 2007, and have been celebrating the Neo-Victorian aesthetic ever since! We’ve got everything from grooms in googles and top hats to brides in gorgeous bustled steampunk wedding dresses… if you like this look, be sure to check out our wedding corset archive, as well.

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Bronwen & Lou’s homemade steampunk kid-friendly fire dancing wedding

Put on your goggles and your neo-Victorian gear, because this is STEAMPUNK WEEK! Today we’ve got a burner-meets-upcycled-meets-kid-friendly celebration including fire dancing, a community-planned potluck, and a sweet ceremony interruption by the couple’s little girl. It’s laid-back and free-form and we’re loving it!

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Vintage frames, gears, and books: A spectacular British steampunk wedding

These two put a lot of thought into every aspect of the day — they designed their own outfits (including modifying purchased items when they couldn’t find what they were looking for) and combined their design and computing skills to create the bespoke invitations, stationery, and a website to match the theme. Adam’s mum and best man designed the centerpieces, and the pair had some of Adelina’s family’s old jewelry redesigned into unique wedding bands with a never-ending vine engraved on them. I LOVE!

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Dynamic Wedding Stationery has nerdy wedding invitations for gamers, techies, scientists, and more!

These Geeky Gamer wedding invitations are just the tip of the nerdy iceberg that is Dynamic Wedding Stationery’s geeky wedding invitation choices. From science nerds to gamer geeks and everything in between, all my geeks brethren will be thinking “these ARE the [invites] I’ve been looking for”…

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Use tie clips to inject personality into your wedding day (while also keeping your tie out of your face)

Outdoor wedding season is here! If you’re wearing a tie without a jacket you might want to think about clipping it down. But why settle for a regular tie clip when you could use this as another great opportunity to show off your Offbeat personality? Check out these options I’ve curated from Etsy and keep your tie in place in style. Psst: these also make great gifts for the tie-wearing members of your wedding brigade.