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A Vintage Birmingham and Sinatra Filled Wedding – Beverley & JT

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Today’s tattooed bride Beverley contacted Marry Me Ink directly when she got got married to Jason at The Westmead Hotel in Hopwood, Birmingham. I contacted Wendy Marie Photography to see more details from their big day, including vintage hair and make up from Le Keux Vintage Salon and couldn’t wait to share them with you!

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JT and I both met through a mutual friend and our interest in motorbiking. However, little did I know I would be marrying into an existing marriage of sorts… That is JT and his best man Breeny are more commonly known as “JT and wifey” – a comical relationship made up of bickering, bacon sandwiches and “Have you rolled the fags yet?”. The standing joke on the big day itself was that I’d stolen JT from Breeny (The photos towards the end of the night show them both looking into each other’s eyes whilst I toasted my whisky on my success!)

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We were really able to express ourselves through the music of the ceremony, starting with Frank Sinatra’s “Have you met Miss Jones” (my maiden name) and our exit to AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”, through how we were able to decorate the wedding breakfast. We also shared our first dance to Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft”. We had lessons to dance a foxtrot! (I also had witchcraft linking in with my sleeve tattoo representing the Wiccan wheel of the year).

For me, the highlight of our day was the moment of becoming Jason’s missus…. and Jason said it was seeing me coming down the aisle – I will never forget him mouthing “wow” when he saw me.

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It’s All About EWE – The Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza 2015

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Back in early 2012 a wedding show like no other was born.  It tumbled, devoid of elegance, from the crazy hearts and minds of three creative wedding industry suppliers, Sassy (Assassynation), Jo (The Couture Co) and Vikki (Liliia Designs). Their desire was simple; to encourage couples to shake off the shackles of wedding conformity and showcase the very best of alternative wedding industry suppliers, offering a diverse and eclectic feast of all things wedding in a fun, friendly and relaxed environment.

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In 2015 the Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza will be back with a bang, with not one, but two vibrant, unique and eclectic shows! Chock full of the most wonderfully diverse and awesome suppliers that will help you make your wedding EWEnique to you and your partner.

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The first Extravaganza on the 1st February will take place at the beautiful Fazeley Studios, a heavenly gem in the heart of Birmingham’s industrial Digbeth. The Fazeley Studios café is always a popular and a great place to sit and consider all the unique wedding products and services on offer. Continue reading

A Colourful, Vintage Pavilion Wedding In Birmingham – Holly & Neal

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Today’s wedding features all of my favourite things – a tattooed bride and groom, a vintage salon, lots of colour and lots of fun! Holly and Neal were married at Joseph & St Helen Catholic Church and later on celebrated at Rowheath Pavilion in Birmingham. Holly wore a gorgeous vintage dress and her hair and make up was done by the wonderful Le Keux Vintage Salon in The Custard Factory. And that’s not it.. There’s plenty more to hear about the wedding with photography from By Garazi.

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We met in April 2003 when we started nurse training.  We met through another Student Nurse called Lee and we became a close little group (the three alternative students in our intake) who spent all our uni time together and would meet up ‘in town’ at the weekend. There was chemistry from the start, Lee was never allowed to sit in the middle and would tease us the ‘you could cut the sexual chemistry with a knife!’. We always denied that we fancied each other even though we obviously did, probably much to the annoyance of our actual partners!! Towards the end of my relationship, I (very naughtily) kissed him one night when we were out drinking. It was the best kiss I had ever had and, although I became single soon after that, it somehow just didn’t fit.  We (he) decided that we couldn’t be friends and we didn’t see or speak to each other for about 3 years.  That drunken kiss had placed Neil in the back of my mind and when other relationships failed I would always think about him and miss him and tried to figure out why it hadn’t worked out for us.

At some point about 3.5 years ago, we started talking via Facebook and kept planning to meet but he would keep cancelling on me last minute!  We were texting a lot and eventually when we did met up we were both single, a bit more grown up and it just fell into place.  I’ve never been happier.

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The highlight of the day is hard to pinpoint because the whole day was fabulous!  But there was a special moment for me.  After I had got out of the car, walked up the Church steps into the back of the Church, I got a glimpse of Neil stood at the alter waiting for me and my nerves and stress melted away.  Everything that had lead up to that point I knew had been worth it and I just wanted to run down the aisle and be standing there with him.

I loved every minute of the Church service.  The Priest had us all laughing throughout the service and my family had arranged some live Irish music as a surprise.  I just loved it all and had lots of fun (which I hadn’t really expected to). Also, I am a Catholic and all of my Holy Sacraments had been at the Church.  I went to the school associated with the Church, I saw my mother marry there and I have said goodbye to loved ones there so to get married there was emotional. 

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