Mel & Lee and their Mexican fiesta colourful wedding _Alternative wedding dresses

Today on the blog we have the wedding of our gorgeous rockabilly bride Mel and her  boy Lee, Mel was an absolute sweetheart to work with and was full of fun , crazy and kitsch ideas, We created a design that was fun, comfortable and very Mel, we incorporated beade Swallows and a Mexican sacred …

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Colour pop, sequins, sparkles, unicorns and stars – Introducing Curious Coco for Bad ass bridesmaids

Introducing our little sister company CURIOUS COCO, specialising in bad ass, gorgeous frocks for your bridesmaid to wear for your wedding and beyond!!!   As alt wedding dress designers we get  asked about alternative bespoke bridesmaids gowns so much, “where can people get them?”, “everything is off the peg and mass produced” we hear folks …

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A badass kick ass Rock n Roll wedding at the seaside- Alternative Wedding dresses

We really love our brides, we are so so lucky that we get to work with such awesome people!! Tahmina is no exception, we loved creating all her bespoke tattoos to go her dress, and our skull design “boris” got an outing too!! Tahmina was having a Metal Festival wedding down by the sea in …

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Rock and Roll Baby!!! – An original, alternative and tattooed wedding dress

Rock and Roll Baby!! I love this shoot so much, it brings back so many memories of Sally (our embroidery genius and myself) excitedly  designing researching, being excited about launching the first and original tattooed wedding dress. It seems like a million years ago but at the same time only yesterday…. I thought when I …

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Hayley got married in our Inkspiration – a tattooed alternative wedding dress

Hayley first conatcted us, telling us she dreaded dress shopping, as she wasn’t a “girly girl” and didn’t wear dresses, but she LOVED our Inkspiration tattooed gown that she had spied when searching the web, and she ended up falling for it hook line and sinker, there were even a few tears!!! Hayley is very …

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Leopard print Lue got married!! Here she is in her alternative cerise pink wedding dress!!

Lue and Wes got married!!!! Looks like they had and fantastic day !! We had such a laugh with Lue she was an awesome client and we loved her crazy ass dress – take a look at the photos, and what a fab testimonial!! Lue wrote “I knew from the very first email that Jo …

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Something Blue?? Yes!! An alternative blue wedding dress for our beaut bride Charlotte

We are over the  moon “albeit a blue moon” to share the photos of our gorgeous bride Charlotte and her beau Bryn’s wedding, We are so honoured that Charlotte chose us to make her wedding gown, and that she travelled from Liverpool for all her fittings . !! From the very beginning Charlotte knew she …

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Kalpana got married in this cute Ivory, cerise pink and turquoise 1950s inspired gown

 What bright and colourful treat we have for you today! We loved making this dress for Kalpana, and love the pops of pink and turquoise !! Congratulations Guys, You look awesome xxx  Thanks also to Kalpana for putting her experience down and this lovely testimonial! xx  “Matt and I got engaged in February 2013 and …

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Paper roses and tattooed poses, a cute alternative wedding dress shoot

When we were asked to get involved with a little shoot with the lovely Rachael over at Marry Me ink blog we said “hell YES!!” , we were extra stoked to learn that our lovely EWE Ninja photographerJay Emme was behind the lens !!, and hair and make-up was by the very talented Sarah from …

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Sara’s tattoo inspired alternative wedding dress rocked with Doc Martins!!!!

Sara was one awesome bride!!! She came to us via The Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza or EWE(which is an alternative wedding show that we helped set up). She decided she wanted a tattooed dress, as she and her partner have a passion for them, and Dave is also a tattoo artist!! We had a lot of …

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