Joanna Bongard
January 12, 2024
When dreaming up the editorial for the maximalism themed issue, there was only one location that we felt could truly fit the bill - the outrageously creative, fairytale paradise that is Eaton House Studio.Read more...
Camera Hannah
April 9, 2018
In four days Gareth and I will celebrate our TEN YEAR wedding anniversary. I can't quite believe it! A DECADE. With such a momentous milestone coming up, last year I started to think about ways we could celebrate. While moving over the summer, I pulled my wedding dress out of the back of my wardrobe to bring it over to the new house and I realised, bar a few photo shoots at the start of my blogging career (anyone remember these?!) it's pretty much sat there, collecting dust and getting all moth-eaten, since then. It's actually kinda sad when you think about it. You spend such a happy, important day in this dress and then it's either sold on, trashed or, like mine, relegated to the back of a closet.Read more...
July 7, 2014
Hindsight is a wonderful, if not mildly frustrating, thing. It's all very well and good learning a lesson from an experience but most people don't ever go back to have a second wedding! So here are 13 things from my own experience that I recommend prioritising on your wedding day.Read more...
January 20, 2011
Back in the Summer I was asked by Wedding Ideas Magazine, who originally featured Gareth & my wedding waaay back in 2008, if we would like to take part in a Real Life Weddings Revisited feature. Being a huge poser, I of course jumped at the chance (and Gareth came along for the ride - again - too!) I also thought it would be a nice opportunity to share our wedding with all the new readers of the blog who probably won't have seen it before. What a difference 3 years can make huh? As you can see, our wedding certainly wasn't the most Rock n Roll out there. The wedding industry in the UK was a very different place in 2008, and my disillusion with most of the choices that were offered to us at that time was actually the catalyst for starting this blog and campaigning for alternative weddings everywhere!Read more...
July 18, 2009
I have a couple of bits of blog love to share with you. Firstly, myself and my gorgeous hubby Gareth were interviewed for Hot Pink Petticoat, go check it out if you fancy reading about life after the wedding! Also, after they featured our wedding in their last issue, I dropped the guys at Wedding Ideas magazine a little email to say thank you and gosh darn it, they only went and printed it! Just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for featuring our real wedding last month (Kat & Gareth). I picked up the magazine to flick through in the newsagents and was like 'ooh that's us!' - it is very cool. Also I saw a letter from Verity in your letters page about her blog and I thought I would share mine too..it's an alternative and kick-arse approach to weddings - rocknrollbride.com! ps I can't believe they actually printed the words kick-arse! heheRead more...
June 18, 2009
So about 6 months ago I received an email from Wedding Ideas Magazine saying our wedding had been submitted to them as a Real Wedding feature by our photographers English Rose and would we be happy for them to share them. Being the huge poser that I am, of course I said yes. So I picked up a copy of the magazine today and although some of the photographs they chose I don't really like (I think my face looks huge in the pain photograph for example!) and the article is beyond a cheese-fest, it is a little bit exciting to be in print...and can you believe they even called me a Rock Chick...maybe they knew...Read more...
March 20, 2009
December 17, 2008
December 17, 2008
The time has come..I'm going to start the huge job of attempting to rebuild the old blog. The posts will no doubt be briefer than before, as not only has the tempo and direction of Rock n Roll Bride moved on since these old posts but also it's going to take hella long time - just the best of the best will make the new and improved Rock n Roll Bride! Let's start with the stuff surrounding our own wedding, back in April 2008 - shall I re-do the wedding report I wrote? If you want it I can re-post it as I managed to recover a lot of the text on the old blog. But right now I'll just begin with some of our favourite photographs from the day taken by our fabulous wedding photographers English Rose Weddings.Read more...
December 3, 2008