I often find links to wonderful, wacky and amazing weddings and wedding goodies around the web, and I try to compile them into a handy list of inspiration for you. So here goes:

I love Bret and Louise’s quirky Australian wedding. This dress is so pretty, and I don’t like white dresses.

Bowie Bride. Best new wedding blog. The title says it all.

Steampunk meets anthropologie. An amazing aesthetic wedding shoot from Christine Farah. Wow.

Ariel from offbeat bride gives us all something to ponder in Fear-Mongering and You’ll seeeeee

Objects in the Mirror: Another interesting look at the fashion industry, though the eyes of reality TV.

A Practical Wedding wrote an incredibly kind and well-thought post on Planning a Wedding in the face of Terminal Illness or Death.

Ashe over on Dramatis Personae has some good advice for custom-ordering from indie shops.

Gothic Glam – the Engagement, and Gothic Glam – the Wedding.

For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls. Reign in Blonde reports on the nuptial bliss of prominent metalheads.

Kerin and Matt’s Celtic Winter Wedding. Black details on dress, kick-ass bridesmaids, tattoos, music … a beautiful and inspiring wedding.

Modern Day photo booths for your wedding guestbook.

Punk Rock Wedding décor and inspiration.

And, lastly, CakeWrecks shows us the amazing sweet treats that happen when gamers marry.

The wedding cake – the centrepiece of the evening’s festivities. The sight the first greets your guests as they enter the reception hall. The towering effigy of fondant and buttercream. For the alternative bride, a wedding cake doesn’t have to be a tiered bundle of white and pink icing flowers – she can have skulls and bats and cobwebs and polka dots and crooked cakes and chainsaw massacres and anything she wants! Given these stunning beauties, it’s a wonder any couple choose to go with the old school white tower anymore.

I’ve been compiling a file of wedding cake inspirations, so you shall be seeing many more cake inspiration posts over the next year. I may even be taking a cake decorating course in August, so you might see some of my own lopsided creations making their way onto the blog.

You might not know this, but my favorite part of wedding planning isn’t the dresses, or the invitations, or the photography – it’s the wedding cakes. And gothic / halloween wedding cakes absolutely WIN when it comes to unique, beautiful cake designs.

I share with you now a few pictures from my internet perusings. I don’t have sources for any of these pictures, so if you know from whence they came, please let me know so I can correctly attribute these talented cake designers.

Will you be having a gothic or halloween wedding cake? What have you chosen as an inspiration? Would you like to see MORE pictures of beautiful gothic wedding cakes? (I have more. So many more.)

What dark alternative wedding website would be complete without a little corset porn?

Nina, by Angels Carrying Savage Weapons

Angels Carry Savage Weapons is a UK-based corset company founded in 2005 by designers Lindsay and Lee Fidler. All the patterns are cut in their Nottinghamshire studio. Each corset is handmade to order and designed to minimize your waist between 2-4 inches. You won’t find any ill-fitting, plastic-boned, faux-corsetry here.

Angels Carrying Savage Weapons’ corset designs give a beautiful silhouette. The elegant, unique designs hint at the erotic.

Ava, by Angels Carrying Savage Weapons

Their bridalwear collection contains several stunning emsembles, like the Siren and Nina pictured here. As each piece is made to order, you can essentially mix and match your own design, adding or subtracting materials, trims and adornments.

Seeing these amazing corsets makes me wish I could have a whole wardrobe full of beautiful gowns. Le Sigh.

Amazing steampunk wedding couple!

I saw this amazing wedding on Offbeat Bride today – Ingi and Jay’s neo-Victorian, Steampunk, black and white, garden wedding. I know lots of you are planning Steampunk weddings, and I love seeing pictures of how they turn out.

This particular wedding was held at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum – how rad is that? It’s full of wonderful steamy detailing and loving friends. I especially love the brides wonderful answer to the question “What was your biggest challenge?”

I must say the biggest challenge of the day was when I managed to set myself on fire during the cocktail hour. My dress caught flame while I was in the kitchenette placing the wedding cake pulls into the wedding cake and just like in those now-not-so-funny videos on AFV, I was quickly engulfed in flame. I’m proud to say that I remembered to stop, drop and roll, which saved both most of my dress and myself. I quickly ran to the bridal room with my bridesmaids where we hacked off the burnt portions of my dress, pulled the melted thigh highs out of the burn wounds on my leg, ingested pain pills, chugged a glass of wine and rejoined the party. And know what? It was still the best day ever. He said yes and I couldn’t have been happier.

The amazing dress came from Bound By Obsession (see them on Etsy) and the cute hair fascinator is by Pinup Girl Clothing. I can’t believe I’ve never discovered either of these classy shops before, and I’m looking enviously at the Bound by Obsession corsets and emsembles. yummy!

Lots of Skully Brides and Grooms celebrating Halloween by getting hitched. For your pleasure, links to some of the awesomest Halloween wedding bling around the web:

Offbeat Bride has been featuring Halloween Weddings all month long: You might recognise the couple getting married at this Haunted Heavy Metal Viking Wedding of Epicness.

What do you think of this story? An Elmsford couple’s Halloween Wedding was not allowed at Sleepy Hollow church. On the one hand, I always think it’s sad when people misinterpret gothic / Halloween weddings as jokes, and the people that choose them as Satanists. On the other hand, if you’re having a wedding in a church, even a church in a haunted town, you should really discuss your décor / music ideas with the clergymen in charge of said church when you choose the place, rather than spring them on him so close to your wedding day.

A non-scary Halloween wedding. Not the usual “fall” theme. I loved this.

Via Intimate Weddings, a Halloween wedding in New Orleans. Every guest is wearing a beautiful costume!

Details about a wedding held in a funeral home. Sadly lacking in pictures, however, their pumpkin wedding cake is to die for.

Another photoless Halloween Wedding blog feature. Lots of cool ideas though.

Inspired by This has a tribute to Halloween Wedding Details. Inspiring stuff!

CakeWrecks Sunday Sweets feature amazing cakes (as opposed to the usual horrific ones). Check out her Halloween cakes this year. She’s also done a Sunday Sweets post on Twilight Cakes.

Halloween Reception Room video.

Another Halloween Reception.

A spider web wedding cake, from Mike and Brooke Jones’s Halloween wedding.