Wedding party madness, two kinds of castles, and some nom-tastic cakes

Pinwheel pinwheel spinning around… with Tribe member Cheeksiej. Photo by HarmonEyes Photography
The Flickr Pool was teeming with photos of wedding parties that I had to share. Plus, there was a bouncy castle (always awesome) and a REAL castle in Scotland! You will be jealous of the setting in that one. Trust. Come join me in viewing the wonders of reader submissions and some awesome cakes from Pinterest in this week's Monday Montage.

What's a wedding without Vader, princesses, Minnie Mouse, James Bond Jr., and Captain Antilles? Photo by HarmonEyes Photography

How often does one get backup dancers? Not often enough!
Photo by Brittany Hildebrandt Photography

I love the caption on this: 'Feels like a cast picture.' Yes!
Photo by Anna Kraft Photography

Oooh colors! Love that wall and Sarah and Paul's wedding party.
Photo by Whitney Lee

Getting rowdy and showing off the Spanx. Photo by Love Life Lens Photography

Such a purty hand-painted cake! Source: amelieshouse.blogspot.com on Pinterest

We're still collecting pins for March's Pin Drive! Start pinning hats and veil alternatives. Source: whitemischief.info on Pinterest
Click these spectacular Clicky Links:
- What we've pinned this week: 25(!) headband tutorials, a cute custom-made felt bouquet, and a slinky upcycled ombre dress.
- Make It and Love It blog had a good tutorial for a flowered pillow cover. I could totally see a mini-version as a ring pillow.
- Offbeat Home is talking about using parties to raise money for charity! Sounds like a perfect wedding opportunity.
- Offbeat Mama is crafting adorable DIY mobiles.
- Ruby Jean shares how to make silhouette charm pendants, which would rock as memorial bouquet charms.
- South African artist, Kronk teamed up with toy giants, Kidrobot, to produce these super limited edition Lovebirds (via Notcot.org).
- New wedding website templates from 519 Weddings have been added to our page on mywedding.com! UNITY COCKTAIL, ANYONE!?
- Don't forget all the ways you can keep in touch with Offbeat Bride: Facebook, Pinterest, the Flickr Pool, Twitter, and email.
Hey, photographers! I love you and do my best to attribute all Monday Montage photos, but sometimes brides don't include your info when they submit photos. If I've featured your work but it isn't properly credited, email me!
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Catherine Clark (aka Superman) is Offbeat Bride's Assistant Editor and a Chicago-based freelance web consultant. In her spare time, she loiters at her local library, draws and paints, bookmarks recipes, and writes for her movie news site.










Cassy said
I love the Urquhart Castle picture, not only because its a castle, but it was also my grandmothers maiden name
Jaime said
Thanks for featuring the pictures of my castle and Scotch wedding. We are so sad that the Loch Ness monster didn't show up but loved loved loved Scotland!
Andrea M said
Hahaha, I just bought Spanx this morning and I gotta say, those things are serious. Definitely more than just wedding pants, those'll be seeing serious action under bodycons and such for sure!
Superman said
Hell yeah they are!
Mrs KH said
Ehehe, you featured our bouncy castle pic! AWESOME!
Thanks so much! And yes, the bouncy castle was awesome- young and old had a blast.
Ellen B said
I am one of the bouncy castle girls in the photo from Erin and Matt's wedding and would just like to note- the group you see were the first ones on there after the ceremony finished- we pretty much made a bee-line for it! One of the other girls and I set up the ceremony venue…and we may have tested the bouncy castle before the guests arrived…
Linzmat said
I'm in the cast picture! I love that pic. It's blown up on our wall.
Bouncy castles and backup dancers are awesome!
Heather Barranco said
That feather hat is so pretty. I wish I could walk around everyday in a hat like this! Nice painted cake. We do this at my bakery, but I haven't seen too many other people making cakes like this.