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A Beautiful DIY Backyard Wedding – Jenny & Eric

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Today I am so excited to share Jenny & Eric’s wedding from Matt Miller of Diamond Eyes Photography that took place at their own house under two huge tents and featured their family and their won pets as their table numbers. It’s so beautiful. I love all the colours!

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Eric and I met very randomly at a New Year’s Eve party in Marfa, TX.  I was living in Austin at the time and he was in Chicago.  We were both kind of persuaded to go to the middle of nowhere by our friends, none of whom knew each other.  My Austin friends were throwing a NYE party at an empty gallery that Eric and his friends just happened to stop into while looking for something to do.  I spotted him across the room and dubbed him my “future husband.”  After a few drinks I introduced myself to him and we hit it off instantly.  The next day we had our first date to see the Marfa Lights (Google it) and then I never thought I’d see him again.  Once we were both back in our respective cities we began chatting all day everyday while we were both supposed to be working.  Two weeks later he booked a flight to come visit me in Austin and we began a long distance courtship that lasted over a year until I moved to Chicago.

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“We tried to make the whole wedding feel very “Jenny and Eric.”  We were both pretty adamant about having a short, non-denominational ceremony officiated by one of our close friends and a very fun reception.”

The whole wedding took place at our house; the ceremony was in our front yard under a big oak tree with tons of Spanish moss, and the reception was in our backyard under 2 large tents.  Our guests really enjoyed the photo booth that our photographer Matt Miller set up and I worked very closely with the DJ to curate a playlist that we’d all love.  The table numbers all featured our own pets and the pets of the wedding party and family members, which was a really sweet little detail.

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A Hand Built Story Of Love – Steph & Jordan

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About four weeks ago, today’s tattooed groom Jordan posted multiple photos to the Marry Me Ink Facebook page and I was astounded – Firstly, because it’s usually the brides and the photographers that contact me to feature their wedding. Jordan is the first, of hopefully many grooms, to contact Marry Me Ink to feature their wedding. And secondly, because their wedding photos from Chris Glenn Photography are beautiful! 

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The date that we met is not 100% known, for she was my bartender, and I was hers. I (Jordan) used to go to Steph’s bar, order a drink from her, and skip out because I was too nervous to actually speak to her besides ordering my usual gin and tonic.. One day before she moved to California she came into my bar and sat at a table drinking margaritas and eating tacos. I told her friend Matt “I’m going to make out with that kid before we move!” so we took a shot together and exchanged numbers.

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I got blasted and blew her off. I thought I’d ruined every chance I had… Well thankfully the next day, she responded to my text and agreed to meet up with me that night at our local watering hole in Orlando Florida “The Lodge”. We hung out in the crows nest with all our friends who happened to be a lot of mutual ones, and just talked and had cocktails.. The night didn’t end there, we went back to her apartment and she showed me some of her art in person (stephwoodpaints.com) then just chit chatted some more. We still weren’t tired so we walked to my apartment, hopped on some bikes and legit rode until the sun came up.. We then watched a Silversun Pickups Unplugged video, and kissed to “lazy eye” which is our song now, and ever since that day we haven’t left each others side.

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There were two highlights for me on our wedding day –  The first time I saw Steph in her wedding dress getting out of the limo to walk down the aisle, I damn near lost everything I had in me. And secondly, our first dance. We danced to City and Colour’s “We Found Each Other In The Dark” but I had one of my best friends interrupt the dance and acoustically play “lazy eye” for us.

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A DIY, Psychobilly Wedding With 1000 Paper Flowers – Steph & Adam

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That’s right – as well as hand crafting all their place mats out of vintage records, Steph & Adam created approximately 1000 roses out of pieces of music sheets.

“It was music that brought us together and shaped our relationship so we tried to work music into every detail we could. We handmade as much as we could to fit the theme.”

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Steph and Adam were married at The Riveria Hotel at Bowleaze Cove in Weymouth with wonderful photography from Linus Moran. Steph beautifully did her own hair and make up and wore a gorgeous Lusan Mandongus dress and Adam wore a sharp Victor Valentine suit.

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Adam and I met through mutual friends who were looking to form a Psychobilly band. Adam played double bass and I sang so we both joined. Although the band was together for several months before we started dating we got along well from the start. It was a long walk up a hill back to Adams house and he wasn’t keen to lug his double bass on his back. Luckily I was the only person in the band with a car big enough to fit the bass in- so naturally I offered to take him to and from practice. It was during these car journeys that our mutual love of a fairly obscure genre of music brought us closer together. The band only did a few gigs before splitting, but we both got what we wanted from it! 

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A Tattooed, DIY Liverpool Wedding – Claire & Paul

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Today I get to share this awesome wedding that took place at the amazing Leaf On Bold Street in Liverpool, full of DIY goodness, a Vivienne Of Holloway dress and many more, with gorgeous photography from Emma Hillier Photography.

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I love hearing how Marry Me Ink couples meet and Claire & Paul’s story is great..

Paul is the Studio Manager of Forever True Tattoo in Liverpool and I started getting tattooed there and that’s how we first met and since then we would also bump into each other at gigs!

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We had so many people tell us it was the best wedding they had been to. People loved how relaxed and laid back it was and just danced away all night.

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“The whole thought of a wedding was very daunting to us, we are just not that kinda couple.”

We scrapped the whole formal dinner and decided to get married late in the day. We chose Leaf on Bold Street as our evening venue. We loved the vibe of the place and eat there regularly so we knew we’d feel comfortable there… plus they make a mean halloumi sandwich. Becky who is their wedding planner was brilliant and was so easy going about the whole day. 

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