The official unveiling
Offbeat Bride: Tafetta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides is sneaking into bookstores, but offbeatbride.com simply can't wait another day. So, I'm decreeing 2007 The Year Of The Offbeat Bride and unveiling (har) the website!
There's a lot here — the requisite book information, but also what I hope will become a pretty robust batch of content, including this blog, an advice column, wedding porn, bride profiles, vendor profiles and links, and a bazillion other business ideas that I'm scheming.
There are still some kinks being worked out (ug, I see the typo in the header image, and there are some navigation and design tweaks coming, and of course I'm still proofing copy all over the place) but I'd love your feedback. Everything work the way you expect? Anything broken? Pipe up!
Very special thanks and adoration to both my designer Carol Chapman and my ever-helpful webmaster, producer, and coder extreme J.M. Dodd.
Now please — buy my book!
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About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.





imaginary dana said
HUZZAH!!!!!!!! Congrats, Ariel! I'm so excited for you. MWAH! MWAH MWAH!
Robert Rummel-Hudson said
This is awesome! (I think I'll spend the next hour or two stealing all your best ideas.) Looking forward to your book release!
dr. dave said
well, it's 10 years late for MY wedding, but after following it on the blog for so long it's great to see it come to fruition. yay!
Matthew said
Yay!
megan said
HOORAH!
so happy for you ariel. soon you will be the alterna-wedding consultant extraordinaire of the world.
michelle said
mazel tov! it looks amazing!!!! rock on, ariel.