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Game of Thrones wedding lantern bouquets

A Game of Thrones Medieval fantasy handfasting from the minds of Sara & Taylor

Inspired by Renaissance fairs and Game of Thrones, this fabulously-costumed wedding featured flowers in the bride’s hair, tons of themed glassware favors, handmade doublets and garb, a GORGEOUS corset, and lush flowers in lanterns for the bridesmaids. Do not miss the epic sword fight where the ladies end up taking the men down hardcore.

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Goodbye, micromanaging bride: How a Latin exam helped me calm down for the wedding day

As the day of the exam approached, Professor Rigg sat us down and told us that the day before the exam, we should not open our books. We should have a good dinner and get a full night’s sleep. “There is nothing you can do in the last twenty-four hours that will change how well you do on the exam,” he said. “By the time you’ve reached that point, either you know Latin well enough to succeed, or you don’t. No amount of cramming will help you.” The point of this long metaphor is that this has been my attitude towards wedding planning…

DIY Adventuring Party Invites

Propose to your adventuring party with these Medieval scroll invites

We are having a Medieval-themed wedding to show our love on Renaissance Faires, sword fighting, and table top role-playing games. So I designed and made DIY scrolls (with help from my mom) and my fiancé wrote the poem, to invite our friends to be our adventuring party.

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Amber & Marshall’s faerie-infused Renaissance wedding

Turkey legs, jousts, games, wench-y corsets, and a golden rose ceremony: sounds like a Renaissance festival wedding for the ages. And then add in the blessing from the king and queen, the adorable mini-chapel, and the tree-climbing uncle-with-a-camera, and you’ve got a wedding that’ll melt any garb-wearing Renny around.