If your tastes tend toward the gothy, film noir, and slightly victorian, your head may explode from io’s southern gothic wedding photos. I’m especially pleased with her little wedding hat, the groom’s striking outfit, and the bat cake. (Thanks, Kat!)

Check out the photos from this October wedding — I love the bride’s striped dress, black manicure, and the masquerade theme. (Thanks for the tip, Morgan!)

The offbeat bride: Tina, Makeup artist for 7 Floors of Hell (haunted houses)

Her offbeat groom: Rob, Haunted house architect

Location & date of wedding: October 24th 2007 at The Cemetery of 7 Floors of Hell in Berea, Ohio

What made our wedding offbeat: It was love made in heaven, but a marriage made in Hell. What didn’t make this happy day offbeat? The theme of the wedding was “Love Never Dies” It was full moon, which we did not plan. The location was one of the big things — we were married in front of the Cemetery of a haunted house. We chose that location not only because we both work there, but because we fell in love there and it has become a huge part of our lives.

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If you lean towards the darker side of the wedding planning spectrum, consider this cake.

It’s white and tiered to appease the family traditionalists, but those thick black roses on top make it clear who’s aesthetic is in charge here.

Love it!

(Thanks to basmatiheather for the photo!)

I know I said before that your wedding is not a contest, and I still very firmly believe this. That said, I have yet to see a wedding as fabulously goth as Sarah Snook’s. First, read this article to get the story on Sarah and her husband Chase’s cemetery wedding in Cleveland. Then, head over here to see pictures of Sarah’s amazing black dress (a dark remaking of Sarah’s great-great-grandmother’s 1870 wedding dress), the hearse they in rode on, and their vegan chocolate cherry cupcake tree.

Then you tell me: have you ever seen a more deliciously dark wedding?

Jane Doe’s UK wedding almost reminds me a of Jessie and Daryl’s Unholy Affair what with the bride’s red dress and the retro bridemaids. But Jane Doe’s wedding is a bit less noire and more fetishy, the groom a more emo (if only I’d been able to convince my groom to wear eyeliner!), and the bride’s bustle more bowed. I suppose the fetish angle makes perfect sense, since the bride runs a latex clothing shop!

Check out the photos of this gorgeous and deeply stylish wedding.

(Thanks to Gun Street Girl for the photo!)