Weddingapalooza: Wasteland Weekend Hair and Makeup

Reading Time: 5 minutes Hair and makeup concepts were important (and fun!) elements of my Wasteland Weekend looks. I went BIG, messy, and Punk with my hair, and borrowed makeup techniques from my theatrical Goth beats, and inspiration from the ultimate Wasteland source: gasoline!… Continue Reading

Weddingapalooza: My Wasteland Weekend Wardrobe

Reading Time: 10 minutes In a previous post, I talked about my once-in-a-lifetime experience celebrating our wedding at the incredible, Wasteland Weekend. This wasn’t only four days of partying and adventures, but I spent months in advance designing and building some epic LOOKS!  … Continue Reading

Weddingapalooza: my second-hand wedding tour wardrobe

Reading Time: 11 minutes Our wedding celebrations ranged from a water park, a Goth festival, climbing mountains, brunches, beach parties, exploring Disneyland, and an Elvis vow renewal ceremony. What was I going to wear!? I turned to second-hand shopping for a sartorial solution.  … Continue Reading

Our Alternative Wedding: Top 10 Best Bits!

Reading Time: 8 minutes Once we had all the major logistics for our wedding day sorted, we had so much fun thinking through the smaller details to make the event unmistakably “us”. Here I’ll count down our top 10 favourite extra special little gems.… Continue Reading

Our Alternative Wedding: The Accessories

Reading Time: 9 minutes A whole post on wedding accessories?! Most definitely! These were some of my favourite details to puzzle through and they really helped to complete the wedding looks. There were also lots of learnings and mistakes I made along the way!… Continue Reading

Our Alternative Wedding: Which traditions did we keep and which did we dump?

Reading Time: 6 minutes There are many centuries of traditions surrounding weddings and marriage. Many of these are, frankly, super sexist and antiquated, but some are really cute and fun. We sifted through and decided which we’d keep, adjust, and which to firmly dump…… Continue Reading