Offbeat Bride | Sheva & Jared's dark, elegant wedding with a twist of tacky Halloween fun

Offbeat Bride: Sheva, Hairstylist

Her Offbeat Partner: Jared, Cad specialist

Location & date of wedding: Castle on the Hudson, Tarrytown, NY — October 31st, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: Jared and I hate the traditional, and dread going to weddings. We decided to throw a huge bash on our favorite holiday, Halloween.

To ensure that our guests would losen up and have fun we had everyone dress up in costume. Jared wore jeans and we all decided to wear chucks and be comfortable. We got to be ourselves and had a stress free fun day.

The red dress, the hair, the tatts, the high-top chucks... oy vey! she looks incredible.

Biggest challenge: We are from Staten Island and we searched high and low for vendors to see our vision. We wanted a dark elegant event with a twist of tacky halloween fun. All we got was attitude as soon as I walked in and they saw my tattoos and I started talking about skulls and a lot of black.

It was not until we headed out to sleepy hollow did we find this stunning castle that loved Halloween weddings.

My favorite moment: Having the double doors open and seeing our friends and family in their costumes.

My advice for other offbeat brides: Don't fight with your fiance! Have fun with planning your wedding.

And don't settle, you CAN have the craziest, trashiest, most outrageous wedding you want, it's not illegal.

Care to share any vendors/links?:

Dress: Fairy Goth Mother
Groom's Jacket: findcoolclothes.com
Chair covers: Daniel Florals in Westchester, NY
Photographer: Frank Farina

Enough talk — show me the wedding porn!:

Comments (31)

On July 16th, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Kate said

OMG- Awesome!!!!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Jazminealthia said

That dress is gorgeous! And the corset-lace-up chair covers to match? Fantastic!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Cheebs said

This is amazing…wish there was more info on vendors. But still gorgeous.

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On July 16th, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Pip said

Holy smokes I love her dress. AWESOME.

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On July 16th, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Angie said

This is my first comment here (besides, I believe, congratulating Ariel on her pregnancy), but I gotta say if I had my druthers, this is almost exactly the wedding I'd want. Congrats on the wedding, and I love your elegant goth style! Love that dress! Love the cake! LOVE!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Anette said

If you're going non-white – this is how you do it!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Sunny said

LUV LUV LUV IT!!!! The pics look amazing!!!! I loved how elegant it was. Congrats!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Emmy said

I'm guessing that's Fairy Goth Mother corset?

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- On July 16th, 2009 at 10:56 PM
  Leah! said
  
  i have a feeling that it is!
  fairygothmother.com is where i plan to get my dress, too! (but a different one)
  
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- On July 18th, 2009 at 10:45 PM
  sheva said
  
  yep, i got the dress at fairygothmother.com it was suprisingly affordable
  
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On July 16th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Tessa said

Where did you get that dress? It is amazing!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Emma said

Amazingly dramatic and elegant wedding! More photos please!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Renee said

Wow, you're pretty! And I've entertained the idea of wearing chucks to my wedding as well.

Also, it saddens me to know you received such attitude from vendors about your vision. Why are people SO stuck inside their vision of a poofy white wedding with doves, diamonds and french manicures? Ergh. How sterile. Give me something dark and romantic any day.

Congrats & here's to a long happy marriage

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- On July 18th, 2009 at 10:55 PM
  sheva said
  
  Frank Farina was our photographer and we used Daniel florals for everything else. they are both located in westchester, NY. We interviewed a lot of people, and we loved their work the best.
  
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On July 16th, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Jen said

I think I might have a new girl-crush in Sheva – spectacular!

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On July 16th, 2009 at 7:11 PM
DeeJay said

What amazing photos!!

Just discovered your site today and really really like it. I'm haunting your archives now

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On July 16th, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Steff said

Is the groom wearing that fab skull-damask jacket from Pyramid Collection? Wow – I've never seen that on a person before.

http://www.pyramidcollection.com/itemdy00.asp?c=0…

Awesome wedding, and congrats!

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On July 17th, 2009 at 12:47 AM
ShoelaceGirl said

I almost peed out of delight from the chair covers. I have always thought they looked so ridiculous…until now.

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On July 17th, 2009 at 1:02 AM
nchanxetsy said

The bride is just gorgeous. Red dress + chucks = OMGBLISS!

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On July 17th, 2009 at 5:06 AM
GabHAri said

Oh my god what an absolutely gorgeous couple (and your dress is to DIE/DYE for!!) Your wedding looked like one HELLUVAN awesome party!!! Rock on, darlings!

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On July 17th, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Fiona said

That dress is absolutely gorgeous. I love it (and the shoes!)

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On July 17th, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Tarion Suicide said

I wish I had thought of that when I got engaged. How awesome! Thats a wedding no one will forget!

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On July 18th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
GoreJess said

I'm getting married this Halloween! Where did you rent those corset chair covers???? Absolutely Beautiful!

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- On July 18th, 2009 at 10:50 PM
  sheva said
  
  Daniel Florals in westchester. He was amazing he listened to my insane ramblings and turned the room into a dream.
  
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On July 18th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Serena said

That looks stunning! Congrats!

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On July 19th, 2009 at 1:07 AM
sheva said

The Jacket was from http://www.findcoolclothes.com/03982.html

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On July 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Stephanie@Geezees said

wow! her dress is awesome! I LOVE IT!

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On July 26th, 2009 at 7:44 AM
autumn said

sooo pretty! i love the dress. And the shoes are so pretty bc they wouldn't normally go with a dress they look awesome.

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On August 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Kell (Boo on OBT) said

Congratulations guys! We share the same wedding date 31/10/08.
I love your dress so much! I'm off to look at all the other pics now.

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On September 28th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Desi said

me and my man r planin a wedding and im all againest the whole white dress thing and i wa thinkin of a holloween wedding myself!!!! i just love the way u look and how all the pic look!!!!! So i hope u dont mind but im gonna use u for an example!!!! thanx!!!!!!

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On October 13th, 2009 at 1:19 AM
Tave said

Awesome wedding

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