211 comments

1. david cooke April 6, 2011 at 15:40

   Well Kat I am still here reading your blog which I discovered a few months ago, I still find myself spending far too much time perusing the brilliant content and not getting on with my own world, the pots pile up the dust is getting thicker cant even see through the windows now, in many ways the thought of getting back to work once my back is finally fixed is a worrying one, how will I find the time then to read your pages, guess I will just have to give up sleep.
   Keep up the good work Kat, loving the video’s by the way.
   On the subject of the back I am now the proud owner of 6 titanium steel screws and 2 titanium steel rods as scaffolding for the ageing spine, and I hope to be fully fit by the end of the year.

   Lottsa love David x
2. The Cheshire Cat April 12, 2011 at 21:08

   I adore your blog! I just discovered it and i’m digging deep inside. It is inspirational and oh so pretty in a way that i like it!

   Thank you:)
3. amy brandon April 13, 2011 at 11:14

   Very very excited to have found this! It is so inspirtational. Makes me feel at home as anything goes! :0)

   Thank you for inspring me today and prob for many more days to come!

   p.s I used to work at M.A.C in Reading and i think i recognise you from shopping there?!

   love love love x
4. Kat Post authorApril 13, 2011 at 11:39

   Ha Amy yes im sure that was me!! i live in Reading and i pretty must go into MAC in House of Fraser whenever i can!
5. Carene April 14, 2011 at 07:39

   Sad & flying solo, I stumble upon a “RocknRoll” article on an inflight magazine (local rsa flight) & my jaw drop to my tray table! All I can say is WOW & thanx for the inspiration! I just got engaged & couldn’t believe my eyes to YOUR world! So glad to be able to relate to the beautiful blogs & amazing photography! Now I’m really ready & rocking to go out & start planning MY day! Rock’n'Roll forever & always xxx
6. Kat Post authorApril 14, 2011 at 07:41

   yey thats great carene! im so glad you liked the article!
   im hoping they will send me a copy soon
7. sophie April 21, 2011 at 08:43

   hi, i was recommended your blog by my photographer aaron collett who sent me your link as we both share the idea of a personal quirky wedding. not too much formal photography is his style which i am so happy with and he was right ure stuff is fab !! i am a florist too so i see so many dull weddings and mine will not be that !!!! i also was suprised to read you are from reading as i am from hungerford area which is just down the road, it can be a hard area for gathering cool wedding stuff but i am going down the colour route with most stuff so the brighter the better and maybe a few trips to london too!! awesome keep up the good blogging !!
8. Jodi May 14, 2011 at 02:58

   wow!!! I love u!! This is me before my life as an adult, parent, football mom and mortage holder took over!! (SHOOT ME!) you are amazing and I plan on taking what you have taught here and finding in my little neck of the backwoods…people who appreciate this! I want to shoot people like you! I want the rawness, the in your face…the down with the man…

   You Kat ROCK THE PARTY!!! Hells Ya… you are the party!!!
9. Miss Sillanious May 24, 2011 at 17:46

   I LOVE your blog! Even though I’m nowhere near getting married (don’t even have a boyfriend – ha ha), I just love the individuality of it all. It inspires me to just be me and embrace my uniqueness.

   I recently actually lost my job because I dyed my hair pink and refused to change it. Now I’m starting my own beauty salon. Booyah! I’m studying make up as well and am hoping I might get to do some rock ‘n roll weddings!

   So here’s to us pink haired babes! Taking over the world…
10. Lyn Sirkett June 6, 2011 at 13:46

    Hi Rock N Roll bride. I, too, have just stumbled across your site suggested by Essex wedding photographer Chris Shotton. Having arrived from Oz a few months ago and setting up a mobile wedding dress business in Essex – I go to visit Brides with beautiful, contemporary and, dare I say it, some out there wedding dresses – you, my dear, are a breath of fresh air. In what can only be described as a wedding world that does not, or cannot, accept the need for individuality, rather, prescribing what brides should or shouldn’t be wearing – with a distinct sameness to the dresses in a lot of bridal salons. So, yes, keep up the good work and I look forward to reading more – may even submit for a feature on my unique wedding dress business – The Wedding Dresser.
11. Christine June 17, 2011 at 16:45

    I want to say a huge thank you – I’ve just discovered your blog today and it has definitely shaken off my miserable London rainy day mood. The photography is absolutely breathtaking!

    Having been married once before and done it the boring way everyone was expecting, I have been procrastinating like crazy and making my eternally patient fiance wait as I dithered annoyingly and muttered disparaging comments about the whole farce of having to get married (“of course I want to marry you babe, I just don’t want to GET MARRIED again – know what I mean?”).

    Your blog has inspired me to get creative and finally start planning (two and a half years later!) so that we can share a special day together, but one that really embodies the spirit of who we are.

    THANK YOU!!! xxx
12. Helen June 29, 2011 at 22:29

    Big Loves
13. Hydrangea Girl July 1, 2011 at 10:24

    Dear Kat,

    I would like to thank you for your inspiring blog. Thank you from those of us who don’t want to conform to the usual run-of-the-mill wedding, and who grow queasy at the sight of anorexic brides in cookie-cutter ceremonies. It makes me want to barf. That’s not me, and you have inspired me to follow my dreams of crafting the fuck out of my wedding, and not getting hitched in a church.

    If you’re wondering in your stats who in Dublin is on your site for 3 hours a day, that’s me.

    Lots of love,
    Alex, aka Hydrangea Girl
14. GFanthome July 7, 2011 at 00:14

    I can definitely relate, being one myself! I’m a rocker chick from waaaay back.
15. candipants July 7, 2011 at 17:10

    I love this blog, cant get enough. It is a HUGE help (busy planning my wedding) and so much inspiration I could explode! Also found out some of my original ideas are not so original (sad face), but I guess rocking minds think a like Thanks for all the awesomeness xx
16. CherryT July 11, 2011 at 16:51

    Love this blog, a wonderful antidote for all the sugary sweet wedding pages out there! I’m having a 50′s wedding, and I’m being treated as a bit odd for going against the “norm”!
17. Catdragon July 18, 2011 at 16:53

    Thank goodness for rock and roll bride! I am not alone…I no longer care about being treated as odd for going against the ‘norm’ DIY, individuality and creativity rocks!I’m having a DIY vintage, pin up inspired affair with a subversive side this October x
18. adee drory July 19, 2011 at 05:52

    I love your photos… so amazing and refreshing!!
19. Linda August 2, 2011 at 04:47

    God I soooo wish this blog had been up and going before my own wedding in May 2007! I despaired at all the schmoozy crap that was out there, and going to wedding fairs just made me want to scream!

    We worked hard to do our wedding our way, and it worked out brilliantly – everyone still talks about it four years later. But my one regret was not getting a wedding photographer – none at the time seemed to fit what we wanted so we relied on friends photos. They were great, and even though we ended up with thousands of unique images we don’t have one single good one of just the two of us! I’m secretly planning a reshoot one day (better hurry before the wrinkles set in) and think I’ll find just the right photographer here.

    Thanks for making the world of weddings less blahhh
20. Marie August 2, 2011 at 10:04

    wow, just stumbled across your blog. real, real cool. keep up the great work !
21. Liza August 5, 2011 at 16:19

    Hi Kat,

    Just a note to say that your website is awesome – loads of my customers (wedding rings) are looking for alternative inspiration and I will point them your way in future!

    Liza x
22. Danny August 5, 2011 at 17:39

    In…spir…ational! I’ve read about your blog a few times, Kat, but having recently gone full time pro, I’ve made the effort to take a proper look, and it’s awesome! I’ll be sending a cheeky submission your way, but first I’ll be rethinking tomorrow’s wedding shoot (red dresses, flip-flops and six bridesmaids… the creative juices are running already…)
23. Maria De Faci September 19, 2011 at 20:28

    Ahhhhhh!!! The bride of my dreams! the shot with the cupcake is a chef-d’oeuvre! Love it
24. rockmarkie September 30, 2011 at 11:00

    hi, my name is markie and im addicted to rocknrollbride

    Its been 15 minutes since my last check of the website and facebook page.

    Awesome work Kat, keep it up! its the ONLY place to look for wedding inspiration that isnt commercial and pointless fluff!! much love
25. Darija October 19, 2011 at 22:24

    Aaargh! Kat…amazing website, congratulations!

    If I had only known about you when I got married last year here in Croatia. As it was, our wedding turned out to be fantastic except that our photographers were, I mean ARE morons, and aren’t even cut out to take photos of schoolchildren on picture day and I have the proof! I wish I can sound off somewhere to warn other brides getting married here in Croatia. Anyone have ideas? They had such a promising website and I would hate for another bride to get duped like I did. And my hair sucked, but that was a combo of the hairdresser and the hot weather…but mostly the hairdresser…it should have lasted, she should have known better…thanks for letting me vent.
26. Kate Gould October 20, 2011 at 11:13

    I love the pictures on this site – they make me want to get married. The only slight stumbling block is I have no groom.
27. Music Wedding Videos October 20, 2011 at 15:13

    Hi Kat, I’m loving this inspiring site, a real escape from the traditional and boring, pink fluffy wedding websites and blogs out there!
28. Renata Braga October 23, 2011 at 20:16

    I simply can’t belive I found a website like this!!! It’s perfect and gives me all the inspiraton I need to plan my day!!!!

    Thanks a lot for creating this place!!!

    xoxo Renata (from Brazil!)
29. tina cleary November 16, 2011 at 11:19

    Hi Kat Cannot believe I have been photographing weddings for all these years and not read a wedding blog, looking forward to having a read of this blog over the weekend – looks pretty cool from what I have seen so far!
30. Sana December 4, 2011 at 11:10

    Loved reading your blog!
31. Sarah J January 5, 2012 at 12:30

    Kat,

    Can you post some ideas for bridesmaid dresses please? I’m want to wear a 50s style wedding dress but struggling what to put my girls in that will compliment it but not be too samey?

    Thanks
    Sarah x
32. Kat Post authorJanuary 5, 2012 at 12:43

    hey sarah check out vivien of holloway! they are probably just what you are after!
33. Sarah J January 10, 2012 at 15:18

    Thanks Kat, will do
34. Matt Ethan January 19, 2012 at 17:05

    Love the blog Kat!
35. phyliss ha siler January 31, 2012 at 22:57

    I adore your site! Finally, a resource for those who are allergic to the generic and cheesy! I just wish I had found your blog sooner!!
36. Dennis Young February 3, 2012 at 22:29

    Thanks for the ‘other side’ of weddings. As a tentmaker for over forty years, I was getting pretty bored with the ‘white tent’ corporate norm. Gaining inspiration from India’s raj tents, I decided to built my own line of tents.

    So my contribution to the world of design is Raj Polynesia tents. A tent with both Indian and Hawaiian influence. The Bamboo poles and carved pineapple finials bring the Polynesian flavor into the raj tent design. (www.rajpolynesia.com)

    And the tropical colors of tops, are just part of my rock and roll days…
37. Khalilah O. February 23, 2012 at 05:12

    I’m officially in love with your blog! My take, point and mission statement EXACTLY…LOVE
38. Nicky March 16, 2012 at 11:17

    Hey Kat, just a quick note to say I’m addicted to your blog, its beautiful!!! Now just to wait for the proposal so I can get involved in being a rock n roll bride x
39. Vintage Smart March 17, 2012 at 13:16

    Seriously awesome concepts and photography! Love everything about your Blog. x
40. Katrina Bartlam March 17, 2012 at 15:56

    Hi Kat. Just wanted to say I absolutely love your blog and love how much support and advice you offer to us newbies to blogging. Was just watching the video’s you did with Ali Lovegrove and got loads of great advice from them. You’re posts are super inspiring, always look forward to seeing the next one! You rock (from a fellow Kat)
41. Jenny March 28, 2012 at 11:17

    Oh thank heavens I found you! With the prospect of my own wedding looming, I was already developing an allergy to pastels.
42. maria March 31, 2012 at 09:31

    6 Weeks to go, everything organised and i STILL havent found a dress, they all look the same! The shops, the sound of cream rustling fabric, the over pushy shop assistants all send me into panic. I feel like the only real woman left in somekind of Stepford Wife Wedding Zone.
    My chum in San Francisco told me about this blog…feeling a sigh of relief reading the first few lines….Ahhhh home xx
43. Emmy April 9, 2012 at 07:08

    Really love your site!!! I’m going to be following this everyday!

    Keep up the amazing and inspiring work.
44. Rosie Cutbill April 17, 2012 at 16:51

    Love Rock ‘n Roll Bride…… brilliant site! Thought I might just find an address to post the promised jewellery catalogue to!!……. not to worry, but do check out the Miglio website! Rosie
45. Louise Murfin April 18, 2012 at 15:52

    Loving the blog, it is really, really difficult to find things “out of the norm” that don’t cost a fortune. I was lucky enough to win my forthcoming wedding in the Bahamas on a secluded beach on a tiny island of just 400 inhabitants. Didn’t have much say in my dress, it had to be Tia and it had to be Benjamin Roberts so I decided it had to be white lol. The headpiece was an interesting obstacle, being one with rather cropped hair (often mohican in the summer), I knew straight away that any sort of tiara would look bloody ridiculous, slides and combs just would not stay put and side tiaras are generally just blah. So I spoke to my good friend Anna at Indigo Thunder (who made my fabulous yarn dread hair falls) and she recommended the lovely Jo Blair at Skitty Kat Designs, Jo makes little hats and fascinators as a general rule so I asked nicely if she would create something special for me. After a really good hunt on the internet I found some 1920s inspired headpieces I adored so with some sketchy and often contradictory instructions Jo went to work. She has just sent me pictures of the almost finished article and it’s heavenly, I put a picture up on the closed FB group of the lucky 16 brides off to the Bahamas (yes there are 16 of us) and so far no-one has commented, i’m taking their stunned silence as one of jealousy lol, although I suspect it’s more a case of “OH, err, that’s nice”, I don’t care, I’m getting married barefoot on a beach in the Bahamas, I’m wearing white patent leather Dr martens for our booze up beach party when we get home and we’re playing rock music whilst drinking cocktails and playing with inflatable flamingos lol. As far as I’m concerned the ceremony is perfect, 4 of us with very little fuss, there will be no table plans, no wedding breakfast, no falling out among families because none of them are coming. Heavenly
46. Kat Post authorApril 18, 2012 at 16:01

    wow Louise that sounds amazing! i cant wait to see your wedding photos!
47. Rob Lowry April 27, 2012 at 22:37

    Your blog must be the most unique wedding blog on the internet! And believe me, I have read a lot of them. The Rock and Roll theme is cool and shows couples they don’t need to abandon their own personal style when it comes to their wedding day! I feel this quote fits well here:

    “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
    Margaret Mead

    Keep up the good work Kat!
48. Misha Taunton May 11, 2012 at 21:33

    Wicked punk wedding photography, love it!
49. chuy@private label wedding gowns May 17, 2012 at 23:49

    Thanks! I really like your site. I Love Rock ‘n Roll Bride. Your post is very inspiring and can give us an idea what to do on our wedding day..Thank you so much!.
50. Jennifer May 18, 2012 at 14:43

    For the longest time I’ve never really thought about getting married like most women and girls do. I didn’t really care and figured the wedding was a show for everyone else, not for me, and was something to get through. After seeing your blog I think that any wedding I might have could be really freaking awesome and worth the effort!