Today, I wanted to talk about Punk Rock weddings, becuase I love them so much. Good Old Punks – they can take something meant to be sweet and princessy like a wedding and turn it into a fun day of raucous debauchery. That’s why we love ‘em so much.

You can punk out any wedding with a few simple details, or throw a full-blown, show-no-mercy punk rock bash. I know which one I’d choose but some people like their punk a little more understated. Ergo, I throw out five ideas to punk out a wedding.

1. Tattoo Art

LOVE LOVE LOVE invitations featuring old school tattoo art – cherubs and hearts and banners and flames and skulls and playing cards. Check out Uber Angel for some of the most rockin’ designs.

2. Combat boots for all!

 My favorite punk ass wedding pics show the demure bride lifting the edge of her sweet white dress to reveal her MASSIVE, epic laced combat boots underneath. No sense bothering with dainty white heels that sink in the grass and give you sore feet – just put everyone in combat boots!

3. Wedding Skulls!

We all know that love transcends death, and what better way to. Plus, skulls and skellytons are totally punk and everyone knows it. Skulls on the cake, bones in the bride’s hair, a misfit’s style guitar for the reception band – hell, just get the Misfits to play!

4. Wedding Open Air

If you can afford to go all out, instead of a wedding, have your own music festival, complete with camping on the lawn, all your friend’s bands, moshing, merchandise and crowd surfing. \m/

5. Mowhawks

Nothing says “We’re totally punk rock” like a groom with a mowhawk, especially a bright purple, blue, red or green mowhawk. Totally hot!

Do you have any more cool ideas for punk ass weddings? Have you got some pictures from your own punk wedding to share? Post below!

To garter or not to garter? It’s a bit of an odd question, really. The whole garter-tossing ceremony seems rather strange and outdated to me – which is why we didn’t partake of it. I wasn’t going to wear a garter, but my dress lady sent me one as a free gift – a gorgeous red and black lace garter with skull beads on it. So awesome.

ALMOST as awesome as the amazing punk rock garters from Peterene Designs, makers of vintage and theme wedding garters and accessories.

Yaaarrrrr!

I might have mentioned this before, but I thought I’d better do a whole post on the topic. Just in time for Etsy Day, Wedding Skulls now has an Etsy shop! You can buy both wedding planner ebooks there – as well as my writing ebooks, and copywriting / marketing writing packages for Etsy shops.

But that’s not the best part. A good friend of mine – Amy Beales – has come on board as well. She’s selling her beautiful line of gothic clothing and accessories, including wedding garters, favor bags, rosaries, coats, corsets, bags and more. Every one of her creations is custom made to your exact measurements, so you can change the colours/fabrics if you desire. Her pride and joy is the Nevermore coat – a stunning red floor-length gothic coat with handmade fastenings.

For those of you who have NO IDEA what I’m rambling on about, Etsy is a network for people to buy and sell handcrafted goods. You can sign up for a free account and browse away till your eyes are sore. So many talented, wonderful people sell and shop on Etsy, and Wedding Skulls is honoured to now be counted amongst them.

Wedding Skulls are also proud members of Etsy Dark Side street team. You can find us on their website, forum and blog. If you search ‘etsydarkteam’ in tags, you’ll find all the delightful gothicky items.

We’re adding new items every day, and we’ve got TONS to add. So keep checking back. We have a special section just for – well – specials, and we’re active in the Etsy forums.

Also, don’t forget that you have only FIVE MORE DAYS of the Wedding Planner Promotion – %50 off both wedding planners when you enter the discount code mmmdonuts or buy through the Etsy shop. Get yours today!

I was going to leave this post for later on in the week but…I can’t. I’m too excited.

Mr Longhead with Leaves and Beads, by Kerry Alice, $85

I met these lovely ladies through the craftster community. They go by the name of Twigs and Heather and Twigs and Heather Etsy. Kerry Alice and Heather are two kick ass punk rock twin sisters who create silver jewellery using casts of natural objects. And they were so much fun to interview! I chat with Heather and Kerry Alice about jewellery, punk rock, and K Alice’s Phantom of the Opera obsession:

My FIL talks about the old days, when he used to walk down the road to watch The Who, and he wore these horrible wing-tip shoes. According to him, you either liked The Who, and you were a Mod, or you liked The Rolling Stones, and you were a Rocker. And never the twain should meet. It was like emos and…non emos.

I must confess that I’m not an expert on ‘Mod’ style, but I have a friend who wears these kind of clothes and she always looks FABULOUS. I’m emailing her right now to tell her about Mod Cloth.