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How to Ignore the Naysayers & Make Your Wedding Feel like YOU

Jan 23, 2025 | rocknrollbride.com | Kathryn Williams |Rachel Darwin

When you’re planning your wedding, it’s a wonderful opportunity to bring your friends and family together to celebrate all the different layers that make the two of you… you! All those hobbies, interests and passions you share can be whisked up to make a sweet, unique, you-flavoured cake, with all the sprinkles and decorations you might fancy. Unfortunately, however, a wedding day is often viewed by others as an opportunity to throw their own ingredients into the mix.
Why Rock n Roll Bride?

Jan 2, 2025 | rocknrollbride.com | Rachel Darwin

I always love writing for Rock n Roll Bride in January. I love picturing all the new readers, who got engaged over the holidays, giddily unwrapping their first issue and settling down with a hot chocolate by the fire.
Something Old, Something New, Something LGBTQ!

Oct 15, 2024 | rocknrollbride.com | Kathryn Williams |Rachel Darwin

Hello and welcome to the year 2024, where anyone with even a fractionally-open mind will throw their arms up and rejoice in the knowledge that any two consenting adults can tie the knot, regardless of their race, gender or religious beliefs. In this rainbow-obsessed issue, we feel it would be remiss of us not to take a moment to raise our LGBTQIA+ Pride flags high above our heads, and shriek at the very top of our lungs, that here at Rock n Roll Bride magazine… LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOOOOVE.
Thinking OUTSIDE The Perfect White Wedding Box

Sep 25, 2024 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

As a Rock n Roll Bride reader, you’re probably already thinking outside those four church walls… literally and laterally! But what actually happens when you’re brave enough to do it? How do you actually go about making your dream “out there” wedding a reality? When my husband and I got married in September 2021, humanist ceremonies in England and Wales were not recognised as legally-binding marriage ceremonies.
When “More!” Becomes Too Much

Jul 8, 2024 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

In many cases, when it comes to planning your rock n’ roll wedding, more is more is MORE. More cake? Yes please. More flowers? Don’t mind if I do! Another few inches on your glittery rainbow tie-dye veil? Just a few inches? Ha! Are you kidding? Give me another metre! Within the chaotic colourful cacophonous cornucopia of planning a wedding… it can be very easy to get completely carried away.
The Nightmare Wedding Guest

Apr 18, 2024 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

Any couple planning their wedding can exercise control over the napkins, the choice of wine, the four different flavour combinations of the cake. But, how can we properly prepare ourselves for one of the scariest monsters a couple can contend with at their wedding… the nightmare guest?
Shopping Small For Your Wedding is a Feminist Act

Feb 7, 2024 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

For a few fun years in my 20s, my singing career led me to singing at a whole bunch of weddings… and I ab-so-lute-ly LOVED it. After some time singing for other peoples’ bands, I decided I wanted to create my own. Funnily enough, that’s how I first met Kat, exhibiting at a wedding fair in 2015…I really loved that job.
US cancer centers continue to see chemotherapy shortages: Report

Oct 5, 2023 | medicalxpress.com | Rachel Darwin

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has released a follow-up survey on the ongoing chemotherapy shortages: 72% of the centers surveyed continue to experience a shortage of carboplatin and 59% are still seeing a shortage of cisplatin. Overall, 86% of centers surveyed reported experiencing a shortage of at least one type of anti-cancer drug.
I Do … & I Don’t – A Feminist Guide to Weddings & Marriage: Budget Embarrassment

Oct 3, 2023 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

You might be so rock ‘n roll that you couldn’t give a monkey’s about feeling embarrassed about or ashamed of your wedding budget. If you couldn’t care less about what society has tried to tell you that you ‘should’ be doing when it comes to your wedding then I have just two words for you… GO YOU. But! There are still many nearlyweds operating under that conditioning of ‘should’. I have found there are two main sources of embarrassment when it comes to the ‘shoulds’ of a wedding budget.
I Do… & I Don’t: The First Year of a Feminist Marriage - People-pleasing

Mar 28, 2023 | rocknrollbride.com | Kat Williams |Rachel Darwin

In 2021, we had the pleasure of publishing Rachel’s journey of planning her feminist wedding. We loved her contributions so much that we’ve invited her back to continue the series by talking about the first year of her feminist marriage. In this article, she’s talking about people-pleasing. As well as being a daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin and friend, now that I am married, “wife” is expected to be put at the front of that list.