Karen & Armin from Jonas Peterson Photography. Married at McLaren Vale and Karen wearing a beautiful Jenny Packham dress and a sleeve of beautiful ink. Do leave the lovely couple some love. Jonas has shot this wedding beautifully – I do love his work!
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Tagged Australia, Australian, dress, ink, jenny packham, love, Outside, tattoo, Tattoo Blog, Tattooed Bride, tattoos, wedding, wedding blog, Wedding dress
Oh my word – Aren’t Dana & Matt THE most gorgeous couple ever? The photo above is my favourite – captured by the amazing Stephanie of La Photographie Nashville. If you haven’t already, you can read Matt and Dana’s engagement story from last week here.
“Our initial idea was to elope in San Francisco at City Hall. However, we decided against it and decided get married in Nashville so our friends and family would be involved.
“I wanted my tattoo on display! People would always ask if my wedding dress was going to have sleeves and I would always respond that I didn’t get a tattoo to hide it. The White Stripes are my favorite band, so I have apple blossom flowers for their song “Apple Blossom” on the outside of my arm. The inner part is a Day of the Dead girl because I was born on the holiday and have been obsessed with it since I was a girl. Matt is from Panama so all of his tattoos relate back to where he is from. He is also a professional chef so his half sleeve is of his favorite fruits and vegetables.
“There were several mishaps but now that the wedding is over, all of the little things that happened seem trivial. Little things were left at the hotel and not brought over to the event site, and the DJ played the wrong songs and messed up the introduction.
“Matt dropped red velvet cake on my dress, stuff that when it happened it seemed so detrimental, but looking back now – not so earth shattering. The highlight of the day was seeing Matt for the first time. We decided against a first look photo before the ceremony, so we didn’t see each other until I walked down the aisle. We don’t have any tattoos as a couple, but we wouldn’t be opposed to it if we could agree on a creative and meaningful idea.“
Aren’t they both gorgeous? Do leave the lovely couple some love. A HUGE thank you again to Stephanie for allowing me to use her photos and to Dana and Matt for sharing their story.
Posted in Love Sessions, Wedding
Tagged America, dress, inspiration, inspirational, love, Outside, Red, tattoo, Tattoo Blog, Tattooed Bride, tattoos, US, USA, wedding, wedding blog, Wedding dress, Wedding Tattoos
Good afternoon! Welcome to the second edition of Divine Without The Dollar on Marry Me Ink. Bringing you gorgeous styles for you as a tattooed bride weekly from ModCloth – without spending many of hundreds on your dress and accessories!
Firstly, you remember the prize give on the launch of this new regular feature last week here. I am about to announce the winner.. Selected my a random number generator.
*DRUM ROLL PLEASE*
HUGE Congratulations to Laura Babb on winning the $50 gift voucher to spend at ModCloth! And an even more huge thank you to those who entered to win! There will be more competitions monthly to win some of these gorgeous products, so keep your eyes peeled!
This week I’m going to bring you a more natural look for the tattooed bride.. Nicely Natural!
Aren’t these items AMAZING?!!! I seriously couldn’t fit all I wanted into this post.. There are many more glittering gatherings to feature!! Below is a lost of item names and prices for you to search on the ModCloth site if you wish to purchase them.
1. Shimmering Sands Dress: $164.99
2. Writer’s Colorblock Wedge: $44.99
3. Sedimentary School Heel: $199.99
4. Nine Lives Flat: $84.99
5. Bouton D’or Bag: $57.99
6. Weekday Brunch Bag: $54.99
7. Simply Studding Headband: $39.99
8. Just Floral You Hair Comb: $47.99
9. Bouquet Brilliance Earrings: $17.99
10. Floral Fantasy Earrings: $23.99
11. Answer Me Honestly Necklace: $21.99
12. Keep You Close To The Sea Necklace: $12.99
13. Filament With Joy Bracelet: $14.99
Rob & I are at a wedding this weekend and I get to wear this beauty:
So let me know what you think of the new features on the blog! Are there any types of dresses you’d like to see or any certain colours? Either email me at marrymeink@gmail.com or leave a comment on the post below!
Enjoy your weekend dolls!.XX
Posted in Divine Without The Dollar, Vendor Love
Tagged Alternative, Alternative wedding, America, dress, inspiration, inspirational, jewellery, love, Manchester, tattoo, Tattoo Blog, Tattooed Bride, tattoos, UK, US, USA, Vintage, wedding, wedding blog, Wedding dress, Wedding Tattoos
Why yes Sir it is.. ELVIS!!! When Emma contacted me about their Vegas wedding, I was greatly excited.. THEN she told me that Elvis officiated the ceremony.. I squealed!
Emma has been a devoted reader to Marry Me Ink and I’m so pleased that I get to feature her fabulous Vegas wedding on Marry Me Ink today! I’m just going to hand straight over to Emma!
“We met because I actually dated one of my husband’s friends! It was only a month-long, not serious relationship, but I was wary of dating Wayne because I thought it would be weird and inappropriate. He chased me around and persistently asking me out for over a month before I finally said yes. We went and saw Turbo Negro for our first date!
We were engaged for just 4 months! I received a beautiful diamond cluster ring on Christmas Eve and we were married at the beginning of April.
We were going to Vegas with some friends for the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly weekend and as we didn’t want a huge wedding or a big fuss,Vegas seemed ideal.
Plus we are both Elvis fans and were really excited at the idea of an Elvis wedding.
“Our ‘Elvis’was brilliant- he did an amazing job! We wanted to spend our wedding day alone together. After the ceremony, we went back to Treasure Island (where we were staying) , splurged on a HUGE expensive dinner, then bought matching pirate pyjamas from the gift shop and spent our first night as Mr & Mrs wearing them, eating amazing chocolate room service cake!
“This time I wanted to do things properly, to have a white dress and something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. I looked at probably a hundred dresses before realising I would never find exactly what I wanted, before my amazing friend Suzanne of Suzee666 Fashions stepped in and saved the day! She custom-made an amazing dress from scratch, loosely inspired by a Deadly Dames one I’d seen online.
I couldn’t find shoes over here that were exactly right either so I ended up getting my best friend in the UK pick some up for me! I had a brief vacation there right before the Wedding to collect them and also got to shop for Wedding undies and a wrap there with my Mummy, who I hadn’t seen for 3 years!
My girlfriends and I had a craft night to make my hair fascinator (the base of which was actually a bargain bin flower from Claire’s Accessories!) but sadly we are mostly all very untalented and ended up mostly gluing ourselves together and eating cake. Fortunately I have one friend who is gifted in such areas- she has an adorable Etsy Shop Everybody’s Darling and custom makes hair pieces from vintage & reclaimed materials. She created a beautiful fascinator for me while the rest of us giggled and fired the glue gun at each other. It was wonderful to have so many people I love be so involved in my outfit.
“My OLD was a vintage rose coral necklace which my Aunt passed along to me when I was born.
New was my amazing dress and Dorothy shoes 😉
Borrowed: A gorgeous coral rose pin that my grandmother gave to my mother, who kindly lent it to me.
Blue: A pretty little faux pearl bracelet with blue skulls I found on etsy. My sheer chance also, the Viva Las Vegas entry wristband (which I couldn’t take off as we were going back there after the wedding) was also blue!
“My son is named Braeden, hence the large tattoo on my upper arm. I also have his birthday tattooed on my upper knuckles and ‘Bumbafast’ (which is a word he made up when he was 2 but wouldn’t tell anybody what it meant!) on my right foot. I have my mother’s name in the ditch of one arm and my father’s in the other. The compass on the back of my hand points SW with a tiny 17- SW17 is the postal code for the part of London I grew up in. Oh, and I have tattoos of my two favourite movies- Beetle Juice & Little Shop of Horrors
As for couple/wedding tattoos, I just had my first sitting for one last week! Zombie versions of Elvis, my hubby and I from one of our wedding photos with an archway of red roses (which were my wedding flowers).“
Aren’t they AMAZING! I do love a Vegas wedding! Do leave the lovely couple some love – Emma and Wayne are a great couple! (Photos were taken by family, themselves and the chapel photographer.)
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Posted in Inspirational, Wedding
Tagged Alternative, Alternative wedding, America, dress, ink, inspiration, inspirational, love, Red, rockabilly, tattoo, Tattoo Blog, Tattooed Bride, tattoos, US, USA, Vegas wedding, wedding, wedding blog, Wedding dress, Wedding Tattoos
