Zandra's cemetery wedding
Real Weddings: Canada
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on October 30, 2007
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The offbeat bride: Zandra, Art Director
My offbeat groom: Jordan, Creative Director
Location & date of wedding: Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC May 13th 2006
What made our wedding offbeat: We got married in a cemetery overlooking the ocean — it was beautiful.
Our biggest challenge: Getting an approval for the ceremony by the city, they wanted to make sure we weren't having a freak show or being disrespectful but it was not a difficult thing to prove. We just walked them through what we were doing. Ultimately they were more amused because no-one had ever made that request before so we were the first.
My favorite moment: We could really feel the love from all our guests and that made the ceremony magical. Also because we were in a big circle we could see everyone we invited so it was much more intimate.
My offbeat advice: It's your wedding, so do what makes you happy and don't worry about pleasing everyone because you can't. And have FUN, hopefully you're only doing this once. 
Enough talk — show me the wedding porn: Photos here, and wedding info over here.
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.
Me said
This is a lovely wedding. I especially like the orange and brown color scheme. We also considered a cemetary at one point; it's fun to see how that turned out for someone else.
kasha said
I bet that was beautiful .. I think that cemetary's are beautiful places the dramatic headstones and trees … the sense of peace .. congratulations …