Vampire Wedding – A Wedding for Creatures of the Night

A white princess dress, a white carriage drawn by white horses, and a shimmering wedding hall in a fairy-tale castle. If this is how you picture eure Traumhochzeit , please go back to the other wedding inspirations, because this one is meant for creatures of the night.

There’s one piece of advice you’ll see over and over again on our site: Plan your wedding so that it reflects who you are. If you’d rather watch Bela Lugosi than Hugh Grant on a movie night, and if “The Sacrament of Love” by HIM is more in line with your idea of a beautiful love song than Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect,” then that should be reflected in your wedding, too. All it takes is a little courage.

This couple from Lower Austria’s “Vampire Wedding” is meant to show you what’s possible with a little daring. The Aggstein Castle ruins serve as an extraordinary wedding venue, artfully accentuating the look of this celebration. The bride’s gown and the groom’s 18th-century-inspired outfit set the color scheme. Both the wedding decor and the wedding party coordinate with this theme, dressed in black and red.

Common wedding traditions are deliberately broken here. For example, you won’t find a heart serving as a symbol of love. Instead, the bride’s memento mori tattoo serves as a reminder of how precious the time they share in this life is, while the ankh symbols on the extraordinary wedding cake offer hope that their love will continue beyond death.