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Lisa & Alex’s Las Vegas Wedding & Ten-Pin Bowling Party!

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I am more than a little bit excited to share Lisa & Alex’s Vegas nuptials with you today. The couple are somewhat Rock n Roll Bride regulars. Lisa was the photographer in charge of the photo booth carnage at the Rock n Roll Bride party, and I’ve already featured them twice before, in both their engagement shoot waaaay back in July and their honeymoon session just 2 weeks ago. However when I saw their actual wedding images I literally squealed with delight. The bar? Yeah that’s been raised…

The couple decided to ditch the UK and in March, jetted off to Las Vegas to be married. They chose The Artisan Hotel as their ceremony and lunch venue. They then went for portraits with their photographer’s Hannah & Kelty of Steep Street Photography at the iconic Neon Boneyard. Here, they had their ‘first dance’ with just the 4 of them in attendance. “We wanted that moment to be just about us and not have to worry about how silly we looked and how our first dance song wasn’t going to be to everyones liking,” Lisa explained. “I treasure those photos because we are completely in the moment and totally unaware of anything but each other.”

The party was then rounded off with bowling at The Orleans Casino. ”For two hours everyone was bowling,” continued the bride. “It was great seeing everyone all dressed up and wearing bowling shoes. I went round taking some polaroids for our guest book and everyone had a chance to sign a bowling pin for us as well. We wanted the day to be about us but we wanted everyone to have fun, we didn’t want people hanging around for formal shots or the having to sit through hours of speeches or wait around while rooms got changed over for the evening fun, we just wanted every to sit back and relax.”

Lisa wore a black Candy Anthony dress with red accents which set the theme for their day. She explained, “We did everything our way at our wedding and I we tried not to settle. I didnt want to hide behind traditions that meant nothing to us and we wanted to be ourselves on our wedding day. If it didn’t reflect us, it didn’t get included. A white dress didn’t give me confidence and make me feel amazing so I went with what did. I made sure I didn’t hide my tattoos or my hair because it wasn’t right for a wedding.”

“From the moment we got engaged we knew it was going to be a Las Vegas wedding and we announced our engagement to our friends by asking if they fancied a trip to Las Vegas,” she continued. “We new from the very beginning it was going to be a small wedding and we wanted to do it our way. I knew straight away what style of dress I wanted and when I found Candy Anthony, I was in heaven.  I made an appointment just to check out their range, make sure that the style of dress was right for me and after an hour of trying on some different styles and colours, I put a deposit down. It wasn’t my intention but when I walked out of the changing room in my dress, I just knew I had found my dress.I was initially really nervous when the sales assistant suggested black as I had gone in with the intention of wearing a ivory dress. Somehow, every shade of white, ivory or cream just didn’t work and I didn’t feel confident in it, I didn’t feel like me but when I put on that black dress, it all fell into place. I felt amazing and I just knew Alex would love it.”

Obviously this was not going to be a usual wedding… even in Vegas terms! The couple were keen to put their stamp on their day in any way they could. “We knew early on we wanted to be able to look back at our wedding and smile and remember how perfect it was for us at the time and I think we achieved it,” said Lisa. “We threw out the rule book, only keeping the traditions that where important and created out own traditions.”

“We made sure everything at our wedding reflected us as a couple. From our invites to our flowers to our wedding favours, everything had a place in our lives.  Alex and I meet because of music, so we had 7 inch record invites. I have swallow tattoos so added a tattoo inspired theme to our invites. We carried on the swallow theme and Princess Lasertron made us the most amazing swallow boutonnieres for Alex, our best man and my Dad. She also made my flowers. When Alex and I first started dating we used to send each other mixtapes so we made a mix CD as part of our wedding favours. Alex designed the cover and I had the fun job of cutting the covers and tracking listing to size.  We both have a sweet tooth and because I wasn’t able to create a tuck shop/sweet table in Las Vegas, we brought the sweets to our guests and after stamping the bags and labels with our initials, we filled them with our favourite sweets (and Kat you would be proud as a few of the sweet bags contained Percy Pigs.)”

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Lisa & Alex’s San Francisco Honeymoon Shoot

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Photographer Lisa Jane shot the photo booth at the Rock n Roll Bride party so I’ve been chatting to he online for quite a while ago. Lisa married Alex in Vegas in March (and yes I will be blogging their wedding report and photographs by the fabulous Steep Street Photography soon I promise!) and they went to San Francisco for their Honeymoon.

“Alex and I have been together nearly 14 years and when we decided to have our honeymoon in San Francisco, it was like a dream come true,” Lisa told me. “We have talked about San Francisco for years and we where both so excited to explore the city.  When I started to think about our holiday, I realised we would come away with a million photographs of San Francisco and Alex but none of the two of us together and I started to get upset.  It was to be our wedding and honeymoon of our dreams but there would be no photos of us to show how much fun we had together…so the search began to find a photographer who could capture us on our honeymoon. Thanks to a recommendation from another photographer, we stumbled across Nirav and when we looked at his work together, Alex and I where smitten (the only other time this has happened with a photographer was with our wedding photographer.) What also sweetened the deal, was then when we started emailing Nirav, we discovered we all loved the same music and it felt like we where old friends when we finally met.”

“The day itself was so much fun. We had lunch chatting about music and photography then the shooting began. Nirav made us feel so comfortable and we where so wrapped up in each other and enjoying the ‘we just got married feeling’ the shoot itself just flew by. We nick named Nirav ‘the ninja’ as one moment he would be right in front of us and the next minute he had vanished and was taking photos from a completely different angle. We lost site of him a few times and suddenly he would be right behind us, snapping away. When we got the photos through, I cried. It brought back all the memories from out honeymoon and he captured us perfectly. These photos are a true representation of us as a couple, silly, always making each other laugh, best friends and hopelessly in love.  Also note, I am wearing my wedding and engagement ring on the wrong hand as we had both got tattooed a few days before and one of my tattoos was a heart on my ring finger! It was still swollen on the day so I couldn’t wear my rings on the correct hand.”

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Debbie & Jamie’s Tattoo Themed Rockabilly Wedding

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Oh Debbie & Jamie how I heart thee! This Belfast couple had their very own rockabilly wedding at Belfast City Hall, followed by a suitability rockin’ reception at The Printers Café.

“My name is Debbie and I run a vintage nail salon in Belfast called Dazzle Me With Your Tips,” the bride emailed me.  ”In my spare time I sell vintage clothes, accessories and homewares at vintage fairs and arts and crafts markets and also work as a stylist with several photographers. Jamie my now husband is a Maintenance Manager for a cleaning services company and his passions outside of the 9 to 5 are Skating, and BMX and Metal Sculpture. We both love getting inked going to rockabilly nights and festivals and most of all touring around Ireland in our beloved  VW camper van Burt with our daughter Ellie.” I loved them already.

“The ceremony had a very intimate feel: each wedding guest received a handmade order of service, acoustic versions of our favourite songs were played throughout,” Debbie continued. “After the vows we revealed surprise tattoos we had gotten for each other!  I got a Volkswagen symbol as a private joke and the groom got ‘Always and Forever’ in an old skool sailor-style on his heart.”

“Our bridesmaid, Milene Fegan, and our daughter both wore rockabilly-style dresses made from tattoo print material and carried smaller versions of the my bouquet.  The guests dressed in their vintage finest. The reception had a cosy rockabilly theme with handmade gingham bunting, fairy lights, candle jars decorated with mismatched ribbon, antiqued paper flowers, and hand-written menus on vintage paper, all made by the myself.  The homemade decorations were matched with classic Cath Kidson napkins and big bundles of kitsch balloons.”

“There was a tattoo-yourself station and a dress-up box, which both went down a storm.  You could get your picture taken with a cardboard cut-out of Elvis when you signed in the guest book!  The food served consisted of homemade Irish beef burgers with hand cut chips and salad, with a selection of relishes, followed by cakes and cream with tea.  A local band, The Stetz, played some classic rock tunes, which was followed by an ipod disco of the bride and groom’s favourite tracks.”

“My dress was designed by myself and my friend Rose helped me put it all together….we aren’t dress makers we just winged it with her sewing machine! I made my veil as well! My shoes were by a northern irish designer called Minette. My leopard print coat was from Next.”

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A Tim Burton-esque, Victoriana Goth, South African Wedding

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I’ve got another killer South African wedding to share with you today. Jess & Matt’s amazing individual style and totally out-there wedding may even make you squeal a little bit. This creative couple pulled off a wedding that was nothing short of spectacular in every way!

“We met at Burn (alternative nightclub in Durban) one night,” the bride told me. I spotted him at one point during a night out with friends and told my them that I thought he was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I asked my friend, Sam (bridesmaid at our wedding), to play wing girl for me. A little while later she introduced herself to him then said that she knew someone who wanted to meet him (me) so she introduced us and we chatted for the rest of the night.  I fell in love with him from the moment I met him.” 

“Our relationship was quite a strange one, we were on for a few months at a time, then broke up, then got back together and so on….But throughout it all we were always best friends and always living our lives together.  The last time we got back together was  on a new years eve.  The very next new years eve (at a friends house party)  Matt decided to surprise me and at 12 o’clock he asked for the music to be turned down.  In front of the entire party he made a beautiful speech and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.”

Despite how incredibly polished their wedding turned out, the couple actually did everything themselves. Both of them are artists and they were blown away by people who offered to help to make their vision a reality. “As we were doing everything ourselves and trying really hard to do it on a budget, from the décor to organising the food. We went to hundreds of different places and met hundreds of new and interesting people.  I found that along the way we met some amazing people.”

“So many people were willing to help, who also had really good advice.  We met people who were genuinely happy to give of themselves for us, who really were strangers to them, I felt so deeply touched by this.  We were so disorganised (as artists generally are) and some of the people we met along the way really worked hard to pull together things for us at the last minute.  Not only were we impressed by the generosity of complete strangers, but our family and friends pulled together and all worked like crazy to help us create our dream wedding.  We still cannot believe the willingness and complete selflessness of all the people involved in this…We made many new friends along the way as well. THIS is what has made this wedding the most special for us (besides actually getting married!)”

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Rag ‘n Bone – Rock n Roll Bride Inspired Photo Shoots from South Africa

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Inspired by the Rock n Roll shoots & weddings he saw on Rock n Roll Bride, South African photographer Adrian Shields wanted to emulate the style and passion he saw coming from the US and the UK.

Rag ‘n Bone was born.

“After many blog searches, and a little bit of hunger for inspiration I stumbled across what you all know as Rock n Roll Bride” Adrian explains. ”Finally, a glimmer of individualism. For 12 years I had shot weddings every weekend hoping to find a bride that would go the extra mile and not be happy with mediocrity and finally I found where this was… over in the UK and America. I just had to bring this to Durban, SA before anyone else would.”

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Eccentric, Retro & Kitsch

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Chen Lie & Thom got married in Oz in a crazy, wild and fun party way. She is Australian and he is British (they now live and work in Prague!) so they decided to head over to Chen Lie’s hometown of Perth for their 1960s/70s/John & Yoko inspired wedding.

“I had been living in Korea on and off for the past 9 years so it was exciting to return home” Chen Lie told me. “We planned a simple elopement with a romantic 60s theme in the park but it turned into a wedding due to the kindness of family and friends.  Everything was a gift from he photographer to the catering.  It was a magical day.  The day before the wedding my Made of Awesome took us vintage shopping and surprised us by paying for Thom’s vintage 70s Yves Saint Laurent suit and my vintage 60s hat.” 

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