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A Gold & Glittery Warehouse Wedding With Matching Glasses – Megan & Steve

Posted on March 28, 2018 | 3 comments

I have been DYING to share this wedding on Marry Me Ink for some time from Savannah Lauren Photography – Megan never wore contacts and wasn’t going to start to on her wedding day so she decided to purchase her beautiful gold glasses that matched her dress perfectly and I’m in love.

Steve and I met in our High School Art Class! I was a Freshman and he was a Senior. I had a HUGE crush on him! We didn’t end up getting together then, but I never stopped thinking about him. We reconnected on Facebook 10+ years later and had our first real date. We’ve been together ever since!

Steve proposed to me a DIY way! He’s a screenprinter and has a studio in our home. He created an art print of a bouquet of flowers that he knew I would love and used it to propose. One day he was finishing up the final color on the print and he asked me to come help him. I had already helped him with some of the printing so I wasn’t expecting him to propose… I printed the last color and when I lifted the screen there was a different version that said “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” on it! I jumped and screamed and immediately said yes! In order to trick me, he printed 100 versions without the text so we gave them out as wedding favors/keepsakes.

Oh man! There are so many highlights! I absolutely loved everything about our wedding day. So, I’ll give you my top three:

1. First look – because it was so special! We were both so anxious/excited to see each other and it was so nice to spend some time alone before the ceremony began.
2. Ceremony/Vows – We wrote our entire ceremony from beginning to end.  Steve and I are not your traditional couple and didn’t want a traditional ceremony. The ceremony was filled with words that meant something to both of us. We also wrote our own vows that were incredibly personal. I will never forget those moments.
3. Dancing – Steve and I don’t dance. In fact, we even contemplated not having a DJ or including any dancing in our wedding at all! We eventually decided that it would be nice to have the dancing for our guests, but I’m pretty sure that he and I ended up having the most fun. We danced the night away with our family and friends! Also, Steve showed us all up with his incredibly sweet dance moves. Specifically, the finger guns.

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An Indie Folk Rock Wedding – Kaitlyn & Michael

Posted on January 15, 2016 | Comments Off on An Indie Folk Rock Wedding – Kaitlyn & Michael

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This morning on Marry Me Ink I get to share with you tattooed bride Kaitlyn and husband Michael’s gorgeous golden wedding from Tampa wedding photographer Regina As The Photographer. Their wedding took place at the stunning Wishing Well Barn in Plant City, Florida.

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Michael and I met through a 12 step fellowship that we are both in, We had been friends for years but something shifted in our relationship when we decided to take a trip to Universal studios together one year, even though we didn’t get physical during that trip – The energy between us completely changed us and I’m so glad it did.

Our day was Everything I never knew I wanted and more.

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The most significant detail that represented us was probably the indie folk rock badassness we had for music – and the contrast between the beautiful mermaid-esque strapless white wedding gown, and my tattoos.. I wondered for the longest time how my tattoos would look in that dress, and for me – It represented us perfectly. The only other detail was one that only myself, Michael and my little brother, Connor (who married us) knew about – and it was the book that was being “read” from for the ceremony by my little brother- What was needed to perform the ceremony was printed on a piece of paper and slipped into the “Book” to look like that’s what was being read – The book was a piece of literature from the 12 step fellowship Michael and I are in.

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All of my center pieces were created by myself, my Maid of Honor and my Man of honor. I also worked up some Mason Jar wedding favors which were also the escort cards. The more fun of those two were the centre pieces- They were beautiful (and I enjoyed pretending like I knew what I was doing!).

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A Hand Built Story Of Love – Steph & Jordan

Posted on May 28, 2014 | 2 comments

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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 Huge Family Wedding In Florida – Fontes & Tony

Posted on February 28, 2014 | 1 comment

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I didn’t really think too much about my tattoos actually. What did keep going through my head was something my Mom said to me when I got my chest tattooed:
“I wish you would slow down a little, imagine what it will all look like in a wedding dress”

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How gorgeous is tattooed bride Fontes? I love the wedding of her and husband Tony which took place at the Legacy Harbour and Marina in Fort Myers, Florida with photography from NikkiMayDay.

“The highlight for both of us was not so much the day, as the whole week.”

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Neither of us are from Florida, so both sides of our family came and stayed with us in a beach house on Captiva Island. Fourteen “strangers” lived together in for a week, and became one big family. It made our wedding day incredibly special because there were no “sides”. Everyone was already so comfortable with one another that they were free to have a great time. The staff at the marina commented that they couldn’t tell our families apart. It was exactly what we wanted, not so much the “look” as much as the energy we created.

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The most common themed detail of our wedding was the Frangipani flower. Tony brought me one off the tree from the back yard on our first date ( I still have it). Its a very sentimental tree for Tony and his family. When we started planning, I dried the flowers that were falling off the tree. I really had no idea what I was going to do with them. Last minute I glued some to bobbi pins and had them put in my hair. We also had them put on our wedding cake.

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