If you’re wanting something a bit different, a bit more punk rock, at your wedding reception, and you’ve got a bit of a sweet tooth, why not create a candy buffet! This unique idea allows you to set out a collection of your favourite sweets and entertain kids and adults alike. Your guests can fill [...]

Via the wonderful folks at Halloween Forum (a source of excellent advice for Halloween goodies) I present you with scans of antique victorian poison bottle labels. What can you do with these, I hear you ask? Lots of things! Why not adapt one of these scans as your wedding invitation/STD cards or reply cards? (If you wanted [...]

I’m extremely humbled to present today’s Real Gothic Wedding. When I first began dreaming and planning our wedding, I scoured the internet for other gothic weddings with which to draw inspiration. I found very few. One of these was Sandra and Shane’s beautiful gothic wedding. Married in 2000 and still blissfully happy, you can tell [...]

Dear Steff Help! We are SO POOR! I mean, food-stamp poor. My fiance was laid seven months ago, and I was laid off last month.We’re making just enough to pay the bills and keep our house, but we’re living on noodles and half-price leftovers from the farmers market. We used the last of our savings [...]

For Metalheads, Goths and other alterantive subcultures, music is at the heart of our lives. We often mark the passage of our lives with songs – we can create a soundtrack of our existence by remembering what we were listening to at out 16th birthday party, when we lost our virginity, at our graduation, on [...]