Category Archives: Planning

Paperless Post’s Autumn Wedding Inspiration #1

Posted on September 7, 2015 | Comments Off

Marry Me Ink has teamed up with the team at Paperless Post to bring you a weekly inspiration board throughout September. As Autumn is practically here (did Summer miss the memo this year?!), I’ve chosen a favourite invite design for each week, to then bring gorgeous inspiration to make your Autumn tattooed wedding outstanding. Paperless Post are passionate about the overall experience that they provide a community seeking unique wedding invitations.

The great thing about Paperless Post is that the designs they provide are both available to download for free to email to your guests or to buy to manually post with matching envelopes.

Vintage Wave

Below is a wedding inspiration board that would team nicely with Paperless Post‘s Vintage Wave wedding invitation.

~ Wedding Cake ~ Table Set-up ~ Wedding Flowers ~
~ Groom Fashion ~ Teal Grey Wedding Dress ~ Sea Green Wedding Tent ~

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Posted in Inspirational, Planning, Vendor Love, Wedding

Tagged Grey Blue Wedding, grey wedding ideas, Greyed Teal Wedding Ideas, Online Wedding Invitations, Paperless Post, Pinterest Wedding Ideas, wedding colours, wedding invitations

Pretty Pins – 3rd September 2015

Posted on September 3, 2015 | Comments Off

If you have Pinterest, you can easily find yourself lost for hours buried under thousands of gorgeous grey tulle dresses like this one – That is exactly what I’ve just done all night.

This edition of Pretty Pins, I bring you great ways to add colour to your venue! If you’re on Pinterest, make sure to keep up to date with all the Marry Me Ink boards.. AKA my “well-invested” time!

Fairy Lights, Paper PomPoms, Flower Curtains, Paper Hanging Lanterns, Paper Streamers, Large Balloons

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Posted in Inspirational, Planning, Wedding

Tagged 2015 Wedding Trends, Paper Wedding Decorations, Pinterest Wedding, Wedding Decor, Wedding Decorations, Wedding Ideas, Wedding Planning

Alice In Steampunk Land

Posted on August 28, 2015 | Comments Off

Today on Marry Me Ink, I get to share with you this punk-pretty Alice styled shoot from Joanne Withers Photography and EK Bridal.

We had the use of two venues in Leicester. Belgrave Hall which was built in the early 18th century and the grounds give a secret garden feel to the shoot. Plus Abbey Pumping station, opened in 1891 and this Victorian pumping station is now a museum, but the great news is that this venue has just been given their wedding license. We are the first companies to gain permission to shoot at this venue and as you can image we were very excited to be given the go ahead, as we love to see all the unusual and alternative venues that weddings are now taking place in and this one really does have the wow factor for the alternative, Marry Me Ink bride.

Eloise of EK Bridal specialises in bespoke bridal wear

“All of my dresses are designed, pattern cut and made by myself in my home studio. The dresses I made for this shoot were produced solely for the style of the venues and the theme we were working towards. I love anything that is quirky and slightly unusual, so to design for a steampunk Alice theme was just my thing. The shoot was amazing to be a part of and everyone involved were so enthusiastic and absolutely love what they do you can really see this I feel in the
images produced.”

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Posted in Bridal Shoots, Fashion, Inspirational, Planning, Wedding

Tagged Alice In Wondrland Wedding, Alternative Bridal Photography, Alternative Wedding Photography, alternative Wedding Venues, bridal shoot, Steampunk Wedding, Wedding Inspiration

MISS JO BLACK’S TATTOOED TALES – THE VENUE

Posted on August 14, 2015 | Comments Off

So it’s been a while since we heard from Marry Me Ink’s blogging bride Jo.. She’s been uber busy at tattoo conventions (See her Instagram feed for it all!) and just general wedding planning. This edition is all about the venue!! (And oh my, it’s a good one!)

It has been a while… For which I am sorry! Life kind of ran away with me and I struggled to find a moment to collect and organise my thoughts. Once I had organised my thoughts, my Macbook decided to spectacularly end it’s own life and I lost all of my (somewhat chaotic) ramblings for the second instalment of ‘Blogging Bride’.

However, I am here now. And I have some new stories to share with you.

Thinking back to when I wrote the first instalment and reading back over what I wrote, it seems aeons ago that I began this journey from single gal to bride to be.

I suppose it seems obvious to say that planning a wedding can seem an incredibly daunting task when absolutely nothing has been arranged yet. So I started with the most basic task of deciding where and when we would tie the knot. Knowing full well that neither of us worship the sun, in fact I am about as pale as they come, we decided that a winter wedding would not only provide the cosy warmth of a Christmas party in the country, but more importantly would almost halve the cost of our venue!

We looked at Orchardleigh House near Frome, but to be honest it was a little grandiose for our needs and we wanted somewhere we could feel intimate with our guests. A friend suggested that we visit Cleeve House, built in 1857 and just a stones throw from my parents home in Devizes, in the middle of beautiful countryside with rolling hills and gorgeous views it sounded perfect.

Leigh and myself drove over to meet my Mum at Cleeve House and instantly we fell in love with it. It was like looking at the fairytale castle of a gothic princess from the outside. Inside a fire roared in a gigantic fireplace in the ‘great hall’ and that cosy Christmas feeling was almost overwhelming. I think we took all of 3 seconds to decide and confirm.

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