Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.gothicbeauty.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.gothicbeauty.com/files.php?file=/gb feed.gif http://www.gothicbeauty.com/ http://www.gothicbeauty.com/gothic_lifestyle/goth_and_wiccan_wedding_plan.html Lifestyle Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:36:00 -0700 Goth wedding planning is a stressful affair, from finding the perfect balance between being true to our goth sensibilities while avoiding the complete alienation of my conservative family. Lifestyle Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:27:32 -0700 I love this story. I'm hoping to have a somewhat gothic wedding myself someday. I'd love to see more pics from this wedding though...:) Lifestyle Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:56 -0700 Been in the brides business for 30 years, see countless broken down brides abiding to their family wishes. I toast you for remembering this was the most important day in Sean's and your life together. I work with brides everyday in fulfilling their "dream" day and have sent them on to other shops to find the perfect dress and theme so as to not forget who they are and to carry that into their new life together. The business is in a box and sometimes you have to think outside the box. I am 50 years old, have tattoos, were some funky vintage clothing and live in a very straight laced area, but I would never compromise who I am. Happy go luck to you and your lad. Lifestyle Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:47:41 -0700 I love reading about other peoples goth weddings.. My boyfriend and I want to have a gothic wedding someday,too. Thank you for sharing all the wonderful and creative ideas. I have been married once before and I tried to do it traditional the way everyone else would like it. This next time around it will be gothic. The way I like it. My advice to future brides is to put you and your future husband first because it is YOUR day! Lifestyle Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:39:27 -0700 I am so glad I found this article, you don't know how releived I was to read this. I'm planning my wedding right now, well trying to anyway. Me and my fiance have decided on an Oct. 30th wedding next year (i know, how cliche, we haven't even written anything in stone and already we have request to change the date, and use a church and a priest. What makes it worse is that my very "normal" sister is having a very fancy traditional wedding in Nov.We want to be happy but we don't want to start our life together by offending our very traditional hispanic families. I have been searching for weeks for ideas to incorporate both styles, i was starting to feel discouraged but this article really helped spark some creativity. Thank you so much. Lifestyle Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:41:08 -0700 this a beautiful story. On October 22,2005 my present wife and I got married, we wanted to have our wedding on Halloween,then our Gothic wedding would not be so strange to the more conservative relatives that are in my wife's and my family.But Halloween fell on a Monday that year, so we did it the weekend before.Anyway we were able to have our family at our wedding, and was able to be true to ourselves,and it worked out very nice.We also drank Red Wine from a gauntlet instead of a unity candle,and we threw in some old Celtic traditions,that nobody could argue with,no matter what there religious beliefs were. It is nice to here of another wedding success. We had a really good turn out,and my Goth friends,and I have some Punk friends as well,and our family all enjoyed the wedding.And if anyone thinks trying to put together a Gothic wedding, is a pain in the arse,because of different traditions,and because of other family members,try living in a small town in Kentucky,and doing it. LOL However it can be done,you just gotta look deep within those family members that you want around you,and you will find your way to be true to yourself,without being offensive to those you care about. We called ours a wedding/halloween party,told everybody to come comfortably,and to dress how ever they wanted to,and we didn't have any issues with any of our guests.The whole cemetery scene is nice, but not all of us can pull that off and still have our family be involved.So we had ours in a metal barn with a cement floor,NO animals in this barn,it is more like an equipment storage building,(for those of you who have lived in major cities your whole life),anyway my soon to be father-inlaw helped me build props and come up with really cool decorative ideas.We built a coffin,kinda based of of the old vampire movies,I'm a big Guy,so we had to build a big coffin,and we stood it up in the corner in the front,we left the bottom out of it ,and basically I used it as a doorway to enter the ceremony for my best man and myself. Instead of putting on wedding bands during the ceremony,the ordained minister,wrapped our hands together with a piece of crushed red velvet cloth.We didn't have any type of sermon,so we just said our vows and she pronounced us husband and wife,and we managed to have a beautiful Gothic wedding,in a country setting,with no religious aspirations. That was really hard to plan,and almost impossible to find an ordained minister who would agree not to put religion into our ceremony.We had a lot of complements and everyone who attended said that it was the most interesting wedding they had ever attended,and although it was kinda dark,and decorated with Dragons,Gargoyles,bats,and spider webs, everyone felt it was all done very tastefully.Best of all, my wife and I had the wedding we wanted,a lot of fun,and stayed true to ourselves. Lifestyle Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:48:00 -0700 stunning! Lifestyle Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:00:10 -0800 the dress is amazing! hope to have a goth wedding too! Lifestyle Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:01:35 -0800 Im not goth but my fiance is.though he doesnt really mind if we have a goth wedding or not i am wiccan and am struggling with his familys strong christian upbringing. Lifestyle Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:36:50 -0700 Her dress is absolutely beautiful, how i want my wedding :) Lifestyle Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:37:24 -0700 beautiful, I want a vintage gothic wedding and your idea's are inspiring. I know when it comes down to it my mother will be happy for me to walk down the isle as I wish but my nan, who pretty much raised me, is going to have other idea's, my boyfirend hasn't even officially propsed yet and she already wants to design my wedding dress, but you have some tactful idea's which will be put to good use I assure you, thanks for sharing Gothic Beauty Magazine