October 25, 2022
Hello and welcome to Rock n Roll Bride, the place to be if you're planning an alternative wedding! The website is updated daily with real wedding stories, advice articles, fashion editorials and more.Read more...
October 11, 2020
Thirteen years ago this month I registered the website rocknrollbride.blogspot.co.uk so I had somewhere to talk about planning my wedding. The year was 2007 (before Pinterest, Instagram or Facebook groups where a thing) and the way most of us connected with other people online was through closed forums or websites such as LiveJournal and MySpace.Read more...
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?Read more...
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!Read more...
December 28, 2018
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!?)Read more...
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.Read more...
August 6, 2018
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
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...Read more...
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
November 6, 2016
Gareth and I have never taken a beach holiday together - not once in 14 years! We're much more likely to go on a ski holiday with my family (the exact opposite of a beach holiday it would seem) or on a city break. Which is why I am so excited that we're off to actual paradise next week with Hilton Seychelles!Read more...
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.Read more...
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.Read more...
Made U Look
August 8, 2016
Things have been pretty full-on of late. Not only have I been travelling a lot (I've been away more than I've been home over month - Vienna, Paris AND Vegas all within three weeks!) but I've been working on issue 10, multiple new collaborations and preparing for the National Wedding Shows which are taking place in September/ October - wah!Read more...