My husbands wedding outfit

Knight in leather armour!

My husband really turned out hot and handsome in this outfit!

So, in our nontraditional wedding, there was no option for a suit for my husband. I found something a lot cooler! Since the price for a fantasy leather armor called Elf Noble Armour from thevikingstore.co.uk was pretty steep, I decided to sow the tunic he would wear under it myself.

And it turned out great, if you have in mind that I really do not sow, and this was my first time doing something this intricate. My earlier work is just making up curtains and other easy endeavors.

The tunic I actually made myself!

Then there was the cape, witch we got from the same seamstress who made my wedding dress. So it had matching trim on the edges, and the sigel on the hood.

Here he is with the cape on.

Finally, he needed some trousers, and I found the perfect ones at a medieval market in black linen. His shoes was some nice leather ecco shoes that he could get good use out of for years. He also wore a simple long leather belt, with a big viking drinking horn attached. 

His outfit was based on layering, so he could ditch the cape after the ceremony, and later also the armour when we got hot and full from the awesome food we got.

Down to the bare minimum, but still looks good! (Ps: I made the draping on my weddingdress myself!)

All my hair

I have had a lot of different hairstyles and colors over the years.
I am naturally blond, so all of my childhood and up to about my twenties, I was different degrees of blond. I made a video with all my hairstyles and colors that I actually have digital photos of, so it starts off in 2003, when I got my first digital camera. If I have short hair, then suddenly long hair in the timeline, it is just clip in extensions used for the occasion. Enjoy!

Planning a wedding

So, four years ago my honey proposed to me at the festival Tons of Rock. It was our 4 year anniversary, and we found the date two years later, on our 6 year anniversary. That gave me two years to plan and arrange everything.

A picture of us at the festival the day after we got engaged.

Since we both are nontraditional and not really religious, a church wedding was not for us. We found a stately recognized religious community asatro who could wed us, and the venue was a viking-age inspired farm. We wanted a small wedding with just our closest friends and family, and set the dress code to medieval and fantasy inspired. It was optional to dress up, and we encouraged people to use bunad or rent something or use whatever they had if they did not want to invest. The most important thing for us was that they could come and celebrate the day with us.

I recommend everyone planning a wedding to go to some of those wedding sites that has a lot of good tips to how you should plan the wedding. I made a budget, and a list of all the things I had to get sorted at what times. Like the venue, cake, photographer, the dress, all the accessories, a horse!!, a hotell, the food, my hair, the program, gifts, logistics etc. Some of those things you have to start planning really early, like booking a venue at least a year before! The dress usually takes 3-6 months to get done!! There was so much stuff to sort out, and I did most of it. I had a lot of help from my sister, who was also my maid of honor. I had to take the last week before the wedding off work, so I could get all the stuff left done in time for the wedding. I stayed up late every day, and got up early, and worked my ass off! I got some good help from friends from far away who came to stay a few days early, they got put to work! Even on my wedding day, I was multitasking, sowing some clamps on the back of my dress so I could hoist the train and fasten it up for the evening, while my sister did my hair.

Multitasking on my weddingday!

I made the table decorations by walking in the forest, picking up moss, twigs and pine cones. Together with some glass domes and led lighting from IKEA, I was really pleased with the forest faerie look. The placement cards was made of sliced wood and a marker. So it wast mostly for free, and I saved a lot on my budget that I could use on other stuff.

From the wedding, we marked all the little bottles with stuff like "love potion", "troll blood", "angel tears" and so on, and filled them with different colored water.

This was the test to show the venue how I would like it to look.

The placement cards all done and arranged for seating.

I made a program for the wedding, so people would get a sense of what was going to happen for the day. The ceremony is really different, witch involves everyone to make an individual toast for the wedding couple. And the menu for those who were curious.

The program for the weddingday

Despite all the planning, things does happen that are not planned, or someone does not do what they are supposed to, or something takes longer than planned. This will always happen, so just relax, enjoy the day, and everything will usually work out just fine anyway. After my intens week of planning and racing to get everything ready for the wedding, I decided to just enjoy my weddingday and have fun. The day flew by so fast, so I am glad I could focus on me and my husband and all our friends and family just having a blast!

Inferno festival

Finally, we got to go to the Inferno festival, witch is a black metal festival right here in Oslo, Norway. The bands we were most looking forward to see was Katatonia, Naglfar, Mephorash and Fleshgod Apocalypse! Sadly, Katatonia had to cancel, so I hope we get to see them soon another time.

Make up and style first day of Inferno.

Horns from Restyle.pl

Harness I made myself

Naglfar

Makeup on day two

Did a aristocrat inspired style in honor of Fleshgod Apocalypse

Shirt and corset from Dracula Clothing, skirt from ebay.

Fleshgod Apocalypse was awesome live!

Walk in closet

So when we got our new bathroom, we not only had to do the old one, but we ripped down the wall into the bedroom and used it to make the bathroom more spacious. This also made room for a small walk in wardrobe, and also a door that leads to the other big bedroom. This makes our master bedroom en suite! I really love how it turned out, and I had room for two big wardrobes in there, from IKEA.

This is the old floor plan before we renovated the bathroom and bedrooms.

This is the new floor plan after.

A walk-through closet. The door at the end is into the bathroom, and the doorway closest is a slide in door.

I like to have a lot of drawers!

 Loosing one bedroom to have the bathroom of my dreams was worth it!

Pre wedding fotoshoot

So, in 2016 we got married. And we hired a photographer who also had a prewedding photoshoot in the deal, so here are a few of the photos we took to find the best spots at our venue.

I will make more blogpost about our wedding, the theme was fantasy and medieval.

New Bathroom

The bathroom in the first floor was so old and horrible, I could not even bring me to take a picture of it before we renovated it.
I put the design together myself, and I am really pleased with how it turned out. I even had some really smart designs like putting in a space for a washing machine, a big cupboard with a mirror door so I can see the back of my head, and the piece the resistance: Cat toilet room.

Take a look at the pictures:

Hurricane spa-bath, toilet, and to the left is the cat toilet cupboard.

Inside the cat toilet, there is a opening in the wall for the cats to go in, there is a motion activated light, and a fan I can turn on if the smell gets intense. There was even room for a big drawer on top and a little shelf. 

Shower with rainfall and normal shower head, and a sink with drawers. The mirror cupboard has lights integrated on the sides.

Here you can see the mirror with lights and also the high mirror cupboard behind me, so when I open the door I can angle it perfectly to see myself from behind. Very practical when doing my hair!
(The look was for a Christmas-themed party, I was Satan's little helper..) 

 The sink, drawers, mirror cupboard over the sink and the long mirror closet is all from Ikea.

The finished kitchen

Hello.
I just now remembered I used to have a blog! After finding it again, I can now see that I never posted any photos of the finished kitchen. So here goes, as well as some pictures of the other rooms we did before we sold my apartment.

My dream kitchen, too bad we moved from this just as I was starting to enjoy it.

New floors and paint in the 2. bedroom

Livingroom got new floors and painted walls.

Ootd on a rainy Thursday..

My outfit today. A simple black dress from H&M, black tights from Cubus and a black belt from Lindex. And I have black eyeshadow to match. ;)

OotD.

Top/dress from Kappahl, tights from Lindex.

Here is my outfit for today. I really love these tights, I got them at Lindex a few years ago. I am always on the lookout for different and stylish tights. As you can see, I like to dress casual and comfortable for work, but still have my own style shining through.

DUO eyelash adhesive!

I'm in love!

I have heard a lot about the DUO eyelash glue, everyone who has tried it says it's the best. I have been hunting it for some time, but I have never found it. Until now! I had to try it right away, and it is the eyelash glue I have waited for all my life! Easy application, sticks on after just 30 sec, easy to manoeuvre in place, and then sticks like it belongs! It's even waterproof! I have tested it for some hours now, and I can lightly pull on them, and it still sticks on perfectly! If you can get your hands on this wonder, you should never have a problem with eyelashes falling of in the middle of a party again!

Corsets!

Today's topic is corsets. They are an essential wardrobe attire for the alternative minded. And they make your waist go in the most beautiful shape, if you have a real corset for tightlacing. I usually only wear my corsets when I dress up, and I usually tighten them just so they are comfortable and snug-fitting so my waist is reduced about 5-10 cm (2-4 inches). It sounds like a lot, but if you try to suck your tummy in, you'll reduce your waist a lot more than that, and the corset makes your back real straight and it is actually easy and comfortable to sit up straight. It is impossible to slouch your back in a corset.

I have gotten four corsets so far, and I plan on getting more. All of them are from Dracula Clothing, they have a lot of really nice ones, and other alternative fashion items as well.

www.draculaclothing.com 

My four different corsets, two overbust and two underbust.

Outfit of the day.

Tanktop: H&M, Skirt: unknown, Tights: Cubus.

I am planning to blog a bit about my style. I do not follow any particular style, I just mix and match what I like, and also what looks nice on my figure. I am indeed a plus size, and I find it a challenge to dress the way I like. The styles I love and are influenced a lot by are goth, rockbilly, metal, punk, aristocrat and steampunk.
I will start to post ootd to show you how I dress, both on laidback days and when I really dress up. I have not really found a lot of gothic styling and fashiontips for big girls, so I will just have to make one myself. ;)

Instagram.

I am trying out some of the cool photo apps I found for my new Samsung Galaxy S 3. You can find me on instagram by searching for Cheriesol.