Hi all,

Me and my partner are looking to have a gothic fairytale themed wedding but am slowly running out of ideas that have been done several times over by people i know. Any ideas on how to make things more unique to my wedding?

I know a great CD you can buy to have as background music (its called gothic wedding collection or something) I found a great cake I want made for my wedding (pic in profile). I've seen some vampire cake toppers in my search online and theres 2 great sites for gothic wedding dresses which I'll put on your wall.

I'll come back when I think of some more ideas :D

You could always pick up more on the whole velvet/lace/victoriana side of the gothic theme rather than the bats, vampires and stuff like that?

Your dress ideas look fantastic - particularly love the deep red one :-)

You could have decorative black metalwork kind of things for the centrepieces - trying to think how to describe what I mean - kind of like the decorative ironwork of gates and things, but more delicate. Or for a fairytale type theme, have decorations that are more feathers, butterflies, silvery twigs, lacey things, instead of more structured flowers.

im having a halloween wedding so mine will be quite gothic aswell like instead of fancy wedding shoes im wearing newrocks my bridesmaids are wearing mini gothy top hats and were all having a pre-wedding photoshoot in the Necropolis in Glasgow :P xx

there amazing!! my dess is purple (the one in my profile pic) n i tryed to find the boots in purple but i can only find them in black but i still think it will look awesome :P there is a pic of the purple ones on my profile xx

Ann,

I know the Corpse Bride one you mean, it is really nice, was going to have that myself until I found out a friend, who is getting married in 4 months is having the same. I was well gutted

have you thought about the Pagan gothic element? check wiccanchat or other such webs for more details but they do lovly things that might be a bit different.
Have you looked into the fine lace around during victorian times? you needn't be "Haloween"Gothic; look at Gothic archetecture or maybe the subtly of gothic nature (victorians, Queen V herself, infact, post Albert) Good luck & Blessed Be <3 x

Perhaps the carriage could be dressed up a little to give it a more fairytale look without losing the gothic theme :) xx

With those colours you have plenty of scope you can break up hard straight lines with darken rose petals and as its winter now or even next winter as you have more time you could go to the woods dressed as gothic faries and take pictures they look really good with bare trees. You could use the pictures to decorate the venue or for invites etc. Venue lights could be dimmed lightly with beads hanging down to look magical. Glitter and coffetti labeled fairy dust coloured coorinated. Black wands for bridemaids and flower girls the list can be endless. If you let us know what ideas you like we could probs come up with more along those lines