Katy + Tom love VW bugs. And Tattoos. They themed their wedding around it and I just love it! They even had temporary tattoos made with their names on them for all their guests. Thanks to Sara at onelove photography for sharing this wedding with me and a bit about the couple: Tom is a huge VW lover and owned a GORGEOUS vintage refurbished (done himself) cream bug that he loved, but sold it to buy Katy’s wedding ring. In exchange, he bought this little crappy white bug (that you see in the photos below) that he is in the process of restoring. The sweet things we do for love!
Katy’s son was 5 when Tom first met him. Now Jake is 10 and Tom is the adoptive father. So cute that he escorted her down the aisle!
Theme/Inspiration: Much of our inspiration was found reading other wedding stories. It was so inspiring hearing other stories of people that made their wedding so unique and personal to who they were. We pieced together lots of ideas and just made them our own. We love vintage things and I fashioned my dress & my girls pencil dresses from the 50′s era. We wanted our wedding to really show us as a couple, nothing fake or cheesy, just genuine “Tom & Katy” and our love celebrating with our friends and family. We put a lot of attention in DIY decorations and little touches…making flags to wave at the ceremony, custom tattoos with our names, our centerpieces were framed pictures honoring our family…a candy table…lots of fun stuff we’d all enjoy that made the day so special!
Fun story: We were just planning on driving away from our wedding in our 2004 Honda Civic as Tom’s ’67 bug was missing its front windshield & we didn’t have the time to focus on getting it fixed. 48 hours though before the big day I decided to push Tom again & see if there was anything we could do to get the windshield in & the bug in presentable condition. So just a day before the wedding, Tom made a crazy windy trek across town driving without a front windshield and had the windshield put it and repaired! Although Tom suffered from chapped lips & things were a little hurried that last day, it was well worth it to have the bug share in our special day!
Favorite Memory of the Day? I don’t know if we have any one specific favorite moment, we loved every single thing thru out the day starting with our ceremony & our amazing Pastor & his hand tattoos who used the words RAD & STOKED alot in our vows, almost dropping the “F” bomb once too! Our “Mr & Mrs” intro to AC/DC Thunderstruck was pretty phenomenal! The first dance with our wedding party & friends to Black Eyed Peas rocked the house & was like an explosion of emotion & joy on the dance floor! The heartfelt tear-jerking toasts from Best Man and Sisterwait, our Pastor dancing & ripping his pants (literally from crotch to butt) & our best man that had to climb a crazy high ladder to take a chandilier down that was in the way of our slideshow were all superb events that we’ll never forget! I think we were just in love with the day, the people, the party and most of all each other. Happily ever after…
Any advice for those planning now? Our focus for our wedding was to have fun and keep it about us so anything that veered from that we just ditched. If it starts to become too much or too stressful, it’s not worth it. We also enlisted a ton of friends to help – everything from flowers to cake to making rehearsal dinner menus - our friends did! So don’t be afraid to reach out, I quickly learned that people were dying to be a part & help. My best “day of” advice would be to start your day doing whatever brings you serenity. I feel so clear and peaceful after I work out, so the morning of our wedding I went for a 2.5 mile jog and came home feeling on top of the world and ready to get MARRIED!! So take time to take care of yourselves, it really does pay off!
Photography: onelove photography
Venue: Mills College
Dress: Priscilla of Boston
Shoes: Paris Hilton Senorita
Cupcakes: Emily Gillette (friend of the bride)
Invites: DIYpaperie on etsy
Bridesmaid dresses: mybabyjo.com
Caterer: Cabana Dave
Custom Tattoos: Body Graphics
onelove photography is based in Los Angeles, but available for travel worldwide.
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Ohhhhh!! I love VW!
It’s a difficult thing someone that LOVE VW (here in Brazil we call it “Fusca”), but at least, here, has many who despise, but MANY³³³³ THAT LOVE! (Me!)
My brother has one and he marries on next May/30th. His bride will arrive at church with his red VW and then I will send pics to you!
It’s unusual here that kind of weddings… It’s all very religious and formal … On My wedding will be something more fun and romantic too (I hope), at 3th, July next … Also send photos, ok?
Hope You understand my poor english again… But I’m trying
Love that they managed to include the VW it looks gorgeous!
such a cute theme! love her whole outfit!
I love how personal this wedding is, so many nice touches!
i absolutely love this wedding right down to the cherries on top of the cupcakes!.. to me there is nothing more beautiful than a tattooed bride in a delicate dress.Gorgeous!
family photo centerpieces sounds like a beautiful way of incorporating family into your wedding. any chance we can see some shots of how the project was executed. thanks!
Definitely the cutest thing I’ve seen all day! So fun!
Sweet story, gorgeous wedding and I love your veil/hairpiece! Where did you get it?
What a unique, sweet and fun wedding – would have been a blast to attend! :)
I love the personalised temporary tattoos and would love to do something like that for my husbands 30th! Do you know where i can get them made?
You feature the best weddings! And those are our invitations as well! Except we have the original car not the VW, of course.
Super cute wedding, congratulations to the couple!! Love love love it!
This is really cute! Sounds like they had a really great time!
hellolani-They created the tattoos at Body Graphics – http://www.bodygraphics.ca/htm/createtatorder.htm#
I just loved a tattooed bride!
I’m in love! So stylish, hip and sweet! Congrats. I wish I was a part of this wedding!
I love this wedding! Are the soles of her shoes pink? What brand are those shoes? They are fabulous and I need them!
I love love love the “here comes the bride” sign. So original and so much fun! LOVE IT!
Where did she get her veil?
So cool.. Mrs. Bowman… Love it!
Thanks for sharing your special moment. The pictures are awesome. What’s particularly noticeable is that your wedding is done in the to be expected Katy flair. The common denominator that is evident with all marriages is the genuine love between a husband and wife.
Congrats Mrs. Bowman…
Much aloha…
best and cutest wedding theme ever!! LOVE LOVE LOOOVE!