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Thrifted Colourful Backyard Wedding

Kat

Thistle and Pine Photo

July 31, 2025

Jenny and Ryan didn’t want a wedding that felt like it could be someone else's. They wanted one that felt like home. So, they got married in theirs. Having the day in a place where their life together already existed meant they were automatically surrounded by the things that mattered to them. Their backyard became the reception space, filled with their own furniture and handmade details. “The inspiration was items from our own home and the life we had already built together,” Jenny said. “It was colourful but sentimental and romantic.”
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Kitsch Vintage Valentines Inspired Wedding

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Evelyn Molina

July 25, 2025

The colour palette from Victoria and Melvin's wedding was lifted straight from a vintage Valentine’s card: bold reds, sugary pinks, hearts and kitsch. They filled the space with trinkets, tchotchkes and sentimental touches that echoed their own décor style. “The overall look really reminded us of our very eclectic and colourful home,” they said. “It was a comforting environment to be in that screamed us!”
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Buying a Vintage Wedding Dress: Everything You Need to Know

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Sarah Brookes

June 2, 2025

If you’ve always dreamed of wearing a vintage wedding dress, you’re not alone. Vintage has always been a popular choice for alternative brides, but it's a growing trend in the more mainstream wedding industry again too. Nearlyweds wanting to make more sustainable, eco-friendly choices are increasing looking at vintage gowns. And when Alex Cooper, of the Call Her Daddy podcast, chose some vintage pieces for some of her recent wedding looks, it only further highlighted this as a trend for Gen-Z brides. 
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Colourful & Quirky Wedding at a Motorbike Repair Shop

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Todd Hunter McGaw

April 16, 2025

The venue for Summer and Iby's wedding, Smoked Garage, is an old motorcycle repair shop tucked away in the heart of Brisbane. It still houses bikes between the furniture, so it was a truly fitting setting for a car-loving groom and an artist bride. “We wanted something colourful, unique and a little bit vintage,” Summer told us. “Smoked Garage suited our style perfectly and let us and our guests relax – nothing too fancy.”
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Easy-Going Italian Rock ‘n’ Roll Wedding

Kat

Framelines

April 4, 2025

For anyone looking for permission to throw the wedding rulebook out the window: here it is. Marlis (from Berlin) and Luke (from New York) gathered their community from both sides of the Atlantic, inviting an unforgettable mix of New York creatives and European friends to join them for a weekend that felt more like an art project-meets-house party than a wedding. The fashion? Absolutely extraordinary. The guests showed up in everything from sharp, avant-garde suits to full-on drag queen ensembles.
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Rebellious London Wedding Inspired by Corpse Bride

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Abigail Steed

January 27, 2025

With a theme of red string, and a nod to Corpse Bride, Anna and Dani's day felt more like a gathering of artists, misfits and rebels than a wedding. Anna told us, "We spoke about getting married for the first time while we were in Morocco last year. As we were finishing, we were playing with the red wires holding the bags of flatbreads together, bent them into rings, and went on to wear them for weeks until they broke. They would be replaced with red string, and later, red line tattoos. We later found out about the red string of fate story which says you have a string running from your heart, out of your finger, connecting you to your soulmate."
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Vintage & Budget-Friendly Alice in Wonderland Wedding in Germany

Kat

Heartisan

December 10, 2024

Inspired by the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Danny-Sue and Dominik planned a wedding with just a €10,000 budget but a whole lot of heart. "Dominik used to read Alice in Wonderland to me in the evenings when we were getting to know each other,” Danny-Sue explained. “It felt right to reflect the story in our wedding. We wanted an enchanted garden vibe with vintage, old-English charm—a non-birthday party for us as a couple.”
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A Magical Mess of Unbound Creation: Homemade Garden Wedding with a DIY Dress

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James Morris and Marigold Wedding Photography.

November 20, 2024

When filmmaker Alexandra Preisz got engaged to visual artist Jaime, she decided to document the entire planning process on TikTok, especially when it came to her dress. Her series quickly went viral, with the bride-to-be sharing every step of the design, fabric sourcing and fitting process with her followers. While she initially envisioned reworking a vintage gown, she wasn't able to find thew sort of thing she wanted, so with the help of her stylist friend Fleur Egan and couturier Olivia Deur, she set about creating something entirely original instead.
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