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WHAT IS
ALT WEDDING FAIR?

Alt Wedding Fair started in 2023 as a passion project of Katie, of Alt Wedding Co, Lily, of Lily Kerbey Music and Rosie, of Rosie Roberts Beauty – 3 leading suppliers within the Alternative Wedding Industry. At the end of 2025, Lily stepped back from Alt Wedding Fair to focus her time on her own thriving business!
We recognised a huge need for representation, diversity and inclusivity within the wedding industry, and to help alternative couples, who knew it was 'never a phase', find wedding suppliers that fit their wants and needs. From experience, they saw so many couples being told they couldn’t have certain features at their own big days, as it wasn’t considered wedding appropriate, and set out to challenge the perception of what the definition of “wedding appropriate” really is. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt Wedding Fair reinvents the wedding experience, running judgement free events, to allow every Nearly Wed to plan their dream wedding. With a focus on accessibility, they pride themselves on ensuring all events allow for comfort for all, including quiet hours with reduced numbers and noise, step free access venues, maps & info documents for pre-planning. 
Their first event, in February 2024, boasted a huge turnout, with couples travelling across the country to attend. The day featured over 35 hand chosen Alternative Wedding suppliers, fire performers, live music sets, and delicious food – all under one roof. Since the success of this event, we've organised countless more fairs, styled shoots and social events, and set up the incredible online Alternative Wedding Supplier directory, putting suppliers from across the country directly in the hands of those planning truly unique weddings. 

MEET THE TEAM

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ROSIE

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I’m Rosie - @rosierobertsbeauty and I specialise in alternative & inclusive wedding makeup! But what is alternative wedding makeup? Well it can be anything! It can be soft natural glam, or it could be black Smokey eye with glitter and lashes to your hair line! Whatever makeup you want for your wedding day, we’ll do it! I cover all skin types, skin colours, ages, preferences & styles, and genders 🖤

I got to know Katie from @altweddingco in 2020 as she’d come see me at my salon for lash treatments, and we got talking about our work and the wedding ideas flowed from there. We always spoke about working together and here we are! Similarly with Lily, we’d known of each other for a while - but when we spoke about weddings it was a natural fit to all work together!

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KATIE

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I’m Katie, and I run Alt Wedding Co where I photograph weddings for the alternative at heart. It all started from working the Slam Dunk Festival & club nights, from photographing drunk people at the club to photographing them at their wedding!

 

When I started Alt Wedding Co, I had the dream of using all my connections in the alternative scene to create a space for emos in love, to have a wedding full of things they loved. When I first started out photographing weddings 17 years ago, there wasn't much available other than the traditional, and I was desperate to change that. 

I’d been speaking about the idea of an alternative wedding fair since starting AWCo back in 2018 and the time finally felt right!

PAST TEAM MEMBERS

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LILY
 

Founding member + keeping us in check 2023- 2025

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