Behind the Scenes of the Rock n Roll Bride Rebrand: Why We Did This

Kat

May 2, 2025

When Rock n Roll Bride first launched, it wasn’t just about weddings - it was about rebellion. It was about creating a space where love didn’t come with rules or limits. It was about standing against what we didn’t like when we planned our own wedding (way back in 2007!) - the elitism, the unnecessary expense, the cookie cutter way of just doing things because someone says you “have to”. Over the years, we’ve broken traditions, championed individuality, and built an incredible community of weirdos, outsiders, and people who felt the same. But over time, something started to feel… off.

Introducing: Love Letters & Feeling Better, A Free Weekly Email Subscription from Rock n Roll Bride!

Kat

Devlin Photos

May 19, 2019

What’s your inbox like? Is it a place you avoid because it’s piled up with spam, emails from your boss and brand newsletters trying to sell you stuff? What if each week you could get a message that was full of love, joy, positivity and fun!? Something you’d ACTUALLY look forward to opening?

Welcome to 2019: An Introduction for New Readers & Wedding Planning Tips from our Awesome Community!

Kat

Nicki Shea

January 2, 2019

Welcome to 2019!! At the start of a new year it's customary around these parts for me to take a moment to introduce myself and the Rock n Roll Bride brand to our newly minted brides-to-be. If that's you then WELCOME!

Top 10 Non-Real Wedding Features of 2018

Kat

December 28, 2018

Goodbye 2018

Kat

Lisa Jane

December 21, 2018

2018 has been a year of tremendous ups and downs. On the one hand SO many incredible things have happened: - I wrote a book! - Each issue of the magazine outsold the one before it! - I hired more people for our team! - We got so many boring yet important behind-the-scenes business things sorted that I'm finally starting to feel like I have some semblance of my shit together (it only took a decade right!?)

Being the Voice of a Revolution When the Revolution is Already Won

Kat

Devlin Photos

September 13, 2018

I started writing this article about a year ago. I found it in my drafts this morning, and although the context and reason for me starting to write it has moved on, actually a lot of the notes I'd made on the subject still made a lot of sense. So please forgive me if it feels a little muddled and disjointed, but I wanted to revisit the topic and finally publish it.

Tattoo Regrets, Laser Removal and Learning to Love my Ink Again

Kat

August 6, 2018

The Man I Married

Kat

Camera Hannah

April 12, 2018

How exactly do you condense ten year's of marriage into a few simple sentences? The ups, the downs, the soul-crushingly hard times and the heart-elevatingly good ones? It's almost impossible not to just reel off clichés about how he's my rock, my reason for living, my soulmate and my best friend. But I've come to learn over the years that clichés are clichés because they're true. All of them. And Gareth is all those things and so much more.

Transforming My Wedding Dress for Our 10 Year Anniversary

Kat

Camera Hannah

April 9, 2018

In four days Gareth and I will celebrate our TEN YEAR wedding anniversary. I can't quite believe it! A DECADE. With such a momentous milestone coming up, last year I started to think about ways we could celebrate. While moving over the summer, I pulled my wedding dress out of the back of my wardrobe to bring it over to the new house and I realised, bar a few photo shoots at the start of my blogging career (anyone remember these?!) it's pretty much sat there, collecting dust and getting all moth-eaten, since then. It's actually kinda sad when you think about it. You spend such a happy, important day in this dress and then it's either sold on, trashed or, like mine, relegated to the back of a closet.

How I Started Rock n Roll Bride (AKA If I Can Do it, You Bloody Well Can Too!)

Kat

March 12, 2018

One of the questions I'm asked the most often is "How did you start Rock n Roll Bride?" There's a short version that I reel off without a second thought, but after reading this post by my friends at Bespoke Bride I was inspired to put digital pen to digital paper and write about it in much more detail. Maybe it will help you if you're just starting out with your businesses, or maybe it'll be nothing more than a welcome distraction from that other thing you're really supposed to be doing right now! Regardless I think it'll be a fun exercise for me to journey back down memory lane for a bit.

Instagram, Facebook & Blogging: The Future of Rock n Roll Bride

Kat

June

January 30, 2018

It feels like actual forever since I've sat down and had a proper chat with you guys on my blog. Of course I keep up to date with you all on Instagram and Facebook (particularly in our ever-growing private Facebook group, we now have nearly 13,000 members!) but this space has been a little neglected on the old personal content side.

The Best of Rock n Roll Bride: 2017 in Review

Kat

December 22, 2017

One of my favourite things about this time of year is that day when I finally decide to switch off (literally switch off my computer for a week!) and allow myself to take a few days away to watch festive movies, eat too much cheese and basically chill the hell out. This is our first Christmas in our new house so it's definitely going to be a double celebration.

SPOOKY OCTOBER SALE: Get Rock n Roll Bride Magazine FOR FREE!

Kat

October 2, 2017

YOU GUYS, as of this month I will have been blogging for 10 years - A DECADE! I can hardly believe it! To celebrate this and the fact that Halloween (definitely a Rock n Roll bride's favourite holiday) is just around the corner we're doing a MASSIVE MAGAZINE SALE... In fact it's not even a sale, we're literally giving them away!

Congratulations Sophie and Gareth!

Kat

Devlin Photos

September 18, 2017

If you follow me on Instagram you will already know that my babe Sophie married her Gareth this weekend and I was one of her maids of honour (I shared the role with Ronnie). It was such a wonderful weekend - THE BEST in fact! We laughed, we cried, we did shots, we ate pizza and the spiciest hot dogs, we drunk danced (and some of us drunk fell over), we abused the photo booth, we stole the skull shaped candles from the centrepieces, we got covered glitter...

A Lush Hen Party

Kat

Devlin Photos

September 9, 2017

Did you know that Lush do private parties after hours? I know right, how amazing is that!? When I made this discovery I knew I had to find an excuse to book one, and Sophie's hen do a couple of weeks ago was the perfect opportunity!

I Need to be Honest with You

Kat

Shell De Mar

July 10, 2017

I need to be honest with you. I've fallen out of love with my blog. Not completely, we're not breaking up or anything, but we're having a moment.

Fifteen

Kat

April 12, 2017

The End of 2016 (Everything Will Be OK)

Kat

Made U Look

December 23, 2016

Is it the weather? Is it the time if year? Is it the fact that for a lot of people 2016 has been a bit shit and there's way too much uncertainty about what's to come in 2017? In all honestly, I don't really know what the reason is (probably all of the above!) but the impending end of 2016 has felt like no other year I can remember.

Nine Years of Rock n Roll Bride!

Kat

Made U Look

October 5, 2016

If someone had told me in October 2007 that the blog I had just started to share my ideas for my wedding would not only one day become the full time career of both me and (soon-to-be) husband, but would also be one of the most widely read wedding blogs in the world and would sporn a print magazine sold in stores up and down the country... well I would have told you to stop making up such nonsense! Even writing all that now, it feels totally crazy, like a dream.

I’m Happy

Kat

Made U Look

September 6, 2016

I still haven't unpacked from my recent trip, the house is full of boxes of magazines, the bathroom needs a clean, my inbox is bursting, I'm feeling overwhelmed with everything I have to do... but right now I am happy.