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 [...]

Dear Steff Help! We’re planning an awesomely dark, fun gothic wedding. We’re super excited about it. But my grandmother (who’s born-again Christian uber religious) doesn’t even want to go. She has a problem with the venue (our favourite club downtown), the ceremony, the dress (red corset and black skirt), the music, the invitation, EVERYTHING. She [...]

I love a couple who buck wedding traditions all in the name of having a fun, memorable party. Helan and Scott started their wedding with a traditional church ceremony. But their wedding reception was anything but traditional … “Till death do us part …” Who be you: Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Ziegler of Hellertown, [...]