Rock Your Wedding Style with Handmade Punk and Metal Inspired Accessories
For alternative couples with edgy punk rock sensibilities, expressing your unconventional spirit at your wedding is a must. Handcrafting rebellious accessories allows you to customize details embracing leather, studs, fringe, and fierce DIY flair.
This guide will explore ideas for infusing punk attitude and metal vibes into your wedding look through customized clothing, radical hair and makeup, provocative invites, and impactful decor. Follow along to keep the mainstream wedding world on its toes and do matrimony your alternative way!
Planning a Punk Rock Wedding Theme
First, tips for organizing your punk/metal wedding vision:
Music Selection
Curate edgy playlists of favorite punk, metal, alternative and rock bands to set the ambiance during all celebrations.
Venue Style
Consider raw industrial lofts, gritty warehouses, urban rooftops, or alt nightclub spaces versus stuffy banquet halls.
Food and Beverage
Serve street food, experimental flavors, molecular gastronomy, craft beer, and experimental cocktails versus rigid multi-course plated dinners.
Dress Code
Forget plain black tie attire. Encourage guests to embrace gothic, steampunk, rockabilly, cyberpunk, hippie or other alternative aesthetics. Provide outfit inspiration.
Decorations
Shun expected floral centerpieces and draping. Instead feature dark candelabras, concert posters in frames, amp stacks, edgy artwork, graffiti elements, and strobe lighting.
Reception Activities
Alongside punk music, get crowds roaring with head banging dance-offs, thrash metal karaoke, body suspension performers, tattoo parlors, hook suspension, and provocative cake smashes.
Punk Accessory Ideas for the Bride
Transform yourself into a badass punk rock bride:
Leather Jacket
Top your wedding dress with a hand-painted customized leather motorcycle jacket, battle vest or jacket featuring band patches.
Spiked Jewelry
Accent your bridal style with edgy spiked chokers, spiked cuffs, pyramid stud earrings, and facial jewels.
Mohawk Fascinator
Traditional veils won’t cut it. Craft a gothic lace bridal fascinator structure and adorn it with a towering faux-hawk instead made of feathers or spikes.
Winged Eyeliner
Amp up makeup with dramatic cat eyes, vivid punky lipsticks, and dark gothic contours. Add glitter, gems and tattoos. Skip demure looks.
Skull Accents
Carry a bouquet wrapped in barbed wire and studded with femur bones, tiny skulls, or anatomical heart charms for macabre allure.
Creepers or Boots
Stomp down the aisle in imposing black leather platform boots covered in graffiti art, studs, and chains rather than dainty heels.
Punk Accessories for Grooms and Groomsmen
Help grooms and groomsmen rock out in style:
Battle Vests
Upcycle jean and leather jackets by decorating them with punk band patches, safety pins, studs, and spikes to make bold statement battle vest and jackets.
Mohawks and Liberty Spikes
Go wild styling sky-high bright mohawks, liberty spikes, side-shaved looks, and other extreme punk hairstyles with hair gel and spray.
Temporary Tattoos
Coat arms in fierce temporary tatts featuring skull, snake, spider, and occult themes before donning sleeveless shirts to show them off.
Piercings
No need for real punctures – clip on piercings like nose rings, lip rings, and spike ear cuffs transform guys’ looks instantly.
Chains and Locks
Layer metal chains, wallet chains, padlocks, and bike chains over pants, jackets, and boots for seriously hardened punk vibes.
Custom Vans
Hand paint canvas slip-on Vans sneakers with doodles, logos, lyrics and graphics that speak to you using fabric markers and acrylic paint pens.
Punk Accessories for Bridesmaids
Help bridesmaids channel their inner rebel princess:
Leather Corsets
Pair daring leather, PVC, or velvet corsets with tulle skirts juxtaposing materials – sweet yet seductive.
Mesh Tights
Rip open runs in fishnets, tattoo tights, and graphic print tights. Layer over matching fishnets for an edgy DIY look.
Neon Wig
Commit to crazy colored hair just for the event by donning a bright neon wig in green, pink, blue or vivid rainbow hues.
Chokers
Adorn necks with lace, velvet, or leather chokers, some spiked, some tattoo chokers, some decorated with anarchist circle-A charms.
Cut Off Jackets
Take traditional bridesmaid coverups and add edge by clipping them short, fraying sleeves, adding metal embellishments and hand painting designs.
Belt and Garter Details
Cinch waists with pyramid studded belts, bullet belt accents, and customized painted leg garters above combat boots.
Unleash your creative spirit crafting accessories that capture your shared rebellious personality as a couple. Whether subtle punk rock touches or radical looks from head to toe, make your wedding day homage to your spirited passion!