Rock n Roll Bride - The ultimate guide for alternative brides

Jon Carpenter

How to Bring A Little Colour to your Wedding

Jon Carpenter

Carla Marcia Photo

November 26, 2024

Gone are the days of monochrome matrimonial monotony being the only option. This is your guide on how to colour outside the traditional lines. There was a time when the only colour in your wedding would be ‘something blue’. Suits were drab, dresses were white; as were the tablecloths, the candles, the cake. We even had a name for it: ‘The Big White Wedding’. A celebration of love, defined by its lack of colour.
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How to Have a Healthy Relationship with your Wedding Content

Jon Carpenter

Light My Love Photo & Film

July 31, 2024

These are dark times for the wedding world. Dark, dark times. If this were a Disney film, the mice would be in shackles, and there’d be a rooster crooning, “But not in Nottingham” from the corner of a stony cell. An idea has been growing slowly beneath our feet, in our peripheral, in the corners of our mind. A new-age abhorrence that has me scratching my weary dinosaur head with my little dinosaur claw. And with its arrival, we hit rock-bottom in our descent into a lake of vapidity. It is, without hyperbole, the final downfall of romance. I bring you: wedding content.
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How to Not to Let Your Wedding Budget Define Your Day

Jon Carpenter

Kerrilyn

November 30, 2023

How much is it? What, thousand?! OK, what’s the next option down? That’s the cheapest?! Fuck me, I guess we’ll have to rethink the live band. How much did your parents say they’re giving us again? What, hundred?! Shit. Well apparently we have to get them, the planner said they bring the whole theme together. I don’t know what theme, she just said ‘theme’. Maybe we can lose the cocktail truck…”
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