The offbeat bride: Lynn, Customer Service Rep
My offbeat partner: Adam, Customer Service Rep
Location & date of wedding: Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
What made our wedding offbeat: We totally bucked tradition. We chose a non religious setting by having our wedding in an art museum. We also had our entire wedding party perform our ceremony!
The bride wore a pirate garter and had tiny skulls added to almost everything. There was a picture of Batman and Superman on the wedding cake. The groom wore bright red socks. The maid of honor was the bride's daughter and she was given away by her 16 year old son.
The very modern venue.
Our biggest challenge: Our wedding took place in a modern art museum. We wanted the whole ceremony and the reception to take place in one big room but didn't want the guests "displaced" while they flipped the room. To remedy this I came up with a very unique ceremony idea that included having our wedding party do more than just stand beside us.
The photo adorned cake and cute "bride & groom" rubber duckies.
We set up the room for the reception and had the guests sit at their tables for both ceremony AND reception. When the maids walked down the aisle, their respective groomsmen escorted them around the room so that each set of the attendants were stationed a few feet apart to create a circle within the tables of guests.
We began at our officiate who began the ceremony and then we proceeded to each set of attendants. Each set performed a piece of the ceremony; readings, vows, rings, etc.
We completed the circle by ending up back at our officiate who completed the ceremony and pronounced us man and wife. Everyone felt very involved and it made it so personal.
The bride and her "bag of DOOM"
Mixing black & white sand.
My offbeat advice: Don't be afraid to do something completely unusual. Don't be afraid to mix things that don't seem to mix. Invite people you love and they will love seeing your personality in your wedding — even if it's completely non traditional. (Sometimes ESPECIALLY if it's non traditional.)
Enough talk — show me the wedding porn:
Comments on "Lynn & Adam's Arlington Museum Wedding"
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Rachelle
March 11th, 2009 · 5:28 AM · #
THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY COOL !!!!!! I love the red socks and the Batman and Superman wedding cake.
Brandi
March 11th, 2009 · 6:09 AM · #
I know heeeeeeeeeeer. Yay! Hehe.
Rachel
March 11th, 2009 · 6:58 AM · #
I SO want a Bride Bag of Doom! What a great wedding!
Julie
March 11th, 2009 · 7:38 AM · #
Lynn – So cool! You definitely had a unique and uber awesome wedding. And the flowers, OMG, so beautiful! *smile*
J
Karla
March 11th, 2009 · 9:19 AM · #
I love the garter. What a wonderful place for a wedding! I love the pix!
Sarah
March 11th, 2009 · 10:36 AM · #
Your brazen attitude to have the wedding you *want* is inspirational! Now I know it doesn't have to be a stuffy one-size-fits-all event in a church!
Aspen
March 11th, 2009 · 11:14 AM · #
This is awesome! We looked into this venue when we were searching (but ended up with an outdoor place in Dallas). Dallas/Ft. Worth brides–definitely check this place out. It's very cool and the prices aren't insane. Hooray!
Brindle
March 11th, 2009 · 11:54 AM · #
Love it!! The photos are beautiful too!
Melanie
March 11th, 2009 · 2:27 PM · #
YA'LL are awesome. I love you guys!!!!
Sabrina
March 11th, 2009 · 2:36 PM · #
Wow I really love how you created your ceremony. I would love to witness/take part in something like that – no wonder your guests were blown away! Congratulations
Debbie Langley
March 11th, 2009 · 3:30 PM · #
this site is great Lynn. I;m not surprised you found & posted here. Pictures are beautiful and I just hope to have a great wedding like you & Adam had one day!
Cherish
March 11th, 2009 · 7:24 PM · #
AHHH!!! Your wedding is famous!
Benjamin DiCaprio
March 11th, 2009 · 7:49 PM · #
I wish I found this blog earlier. Great stuff you have here.
elyse
March 11th, 2009 · 8:32 PM · #
lovely photos.
I'm amazed that you have a 16 year old – you look 25!
Lynn
March 12th, 2009 · 5:26 AM · #
Thank you to everyone for the wonderful comments! Elyse – thank you! She's actually 23. She was 20 in those pictures!
Katrina
March 12th, 2009 · 8:27 PM · #
Love the wedding! I'm also have ceremony/reception in the same room, and was thinking about having the guests sit at tables. I was a little unsure how it would work, but just hearing that it worked for someone else gives me confidence! Thanks so much for sharing!
Rachel
March 14th, 2009 · 8:58 AM · #
Where did you get your sand glasses from? Those are gorgeous!
rdmcknight@gmail.com
jen brister
March 17th, 2009 · 8:56 AM · #
I want the bride bag of doom!
Lynn
March 18th, 2009 · 1:57 PM · #
For Rachel:
http://www.myweddingaccents.com/Unity-Sand-Ceremony-Set-with-FREE-Personalization-p/ws8246.htm
For Jen:
Bag from Wal-Mart, Patch from Hot Topic and embroidery from a local place. Voila!
Sarah
August 26th, 2009 · 10:55 AM · #
Wow! I love it when people have FUN with their wedding.
I'm looking in to using the museum for our reception (We're tying the knot at the UTA Planetarium a few minutes away). Was the price outrageous, or affordable?
Rebecca
August 27th, 2009 · 6:07 PM · #
What a brilliant idea for a wedding ceremony. I would love to have a ceremony where the attention was focused on myself and the groom, but that all my friends and family could feel a part of too. I may have to steal this idea… that, and the Bride Bad of DOOM. Mwa ha ha!