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A Cool And Classy 60s Wedding – Shannon & Nick

Posted on May 2, 2014 | 3 comments

“We kept the traditions we felt passionate about, ditched the ones we felt weren’t as meaningful to us”

Today I get to share with you the cool, stylish and very classy Smog Shoppe wedding of Shannon and Nick from Steve Cowell Photo. I love everything about this wedding from Shannon’s classic dress and flower crown, to their accidental first look.

Nick had curated an art exhibition near where I was living. I walked by, peered in the window, and thought it was interesting enough to have a look. We met, scheduled a studio visit to see my work, and spent a year or so becoming friends. About two weeks into our relationship we went to Cleveland on a whim. That was a trip we will always remember fondly.

The only DIY element we had were our Save The Date cards. The master copy was Sharpie on paper. Easy.

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A Yorkshire Wedding Full Of Vintage Heirlooms – Claire & James

Posted on April 25, 2014 | 2 comments

Today on Marry Me Ink is this stunning wedding full of vintage trinkets and heirlooms and of course a gorgeous tattooed bride named Claire and her new husband James from Karen McGowran Photography.

“James and I met in our local gym. I caught him eyeing up my bum and we both couldn’t help giggling!”

I went over to him and offered him the 1kg dumbbells, I don’t think he was expecting such cheek! We went on our first date a few days later where he thrashed me at pool, bowling and “bop-it” – no letting the lady win!! After that first date he kind of never left and officially moved in three months later! One of the first few times he met my mam, she was at my house with her friends having dinner. My mam (a sweet innocent lady), tripped over and face planted James’s crotch, much to the amusement of everyone! It has been a running joke since that she has a crush on him and James delighted in bringing this up in his speech.

James and I love hosting our close friends and family so when we found our venue, we were thrilled to find out it had a 20 berth cottage at the back. We invited our friends and family to stay for the two nights before the wedding where we hosted a big party and a pamper day for the ladies. It was fantastic to be able to make a full weekend of it and have our nearest and dearest there in the lead up to our big day.

James and I are very competitive so we wanted to incorporate that into our wedding day– hence the limbo competition. We also hired a boxing machine, where the pad comes down and you punch it as hard as you can to reveal your score. There were some very competitive guests and it was only at the last hour that someone beat James! Along the competitive line we also had a “guess how many sweets in the jar” competition and the winner won the massive jar of sweets.

We love playing pranks on each other and on each table we hid a whoopee cushion on a seat. We also wanted to capture lots of silly photographs which our wonderful photographer Karen McGowran did perfectly.

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A Pastel And Country Wedding – Hannah & Craig

Posted on January 31, 2014 | Comments Off

“The photos we have are just the perfect memories of the most perfect day”

Beautiful tattooed bride Hannah & her husband Craig were married in Bletchley Registry Office, followed by a blessing ceremony at Craig’s Parents’ country house back garden with fantastic photography from Natalie J Weddings.

“Natalie was the first photographer I met and that was back in September of 2012 and I didn’t see any others, I just knew straight away she would do an amazing job and she did. I think using Natalie was the best thing we did.”

We were engaged for 3 years before we married, once Craig had proposed we didn’t make plans straight away and didn’t ever say it would be a particular date or year, it was in the spring of 2012 looking out across Craig’s parents garden and land that we decided it would be the most perfect venue, it was from then on the wedding plans went into full steam ahead! The “venue” we had was certainly the lighting out of the blue inspiration we needed to kick start the plans, that’s what made the wedding so unique, Craig’s parents have a stunning home and we are so deeply grateful to them for allowing us to hold our Wedding at their house.

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A Tattooed, DIY Liverpool Wedding – Claire & Paul

Posted on January 10, 2014 | 5 comments

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.

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!

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.

“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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