The offbeat bride: Melissa – Grad Student, Office Wench, Heavy Metal Muse (and OBT member "Metal Melissa")

Her offbeat partner: Phil – drummer of Centaurus, repairman

Location & date of wedding: Our Backyard! Chicago 'burbs, IL — 06-26-2009

What made our wedding offbeat: From the start we wanted to do something that completely embodied our personalities. Dia De Los Muertos was the perfect fit! It is a custom that is spiritual, quirky, morbid, and unique -– just like us!

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The Offbeat Bride: Kerin, special ed. teacher for middle schoolers with mental illnesses

Her offbeat partner: Matt, computer geek

Location & date of wedding: Barker Tavern, Scituate, MA — Nov. 1, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We really cherry picked the traditions we wanted to use.

We did not get married in a church, our ceremony was shorter than the actual processional to get to our JP. Anything we had the means to do ourselves, we did (which really means, I did).

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The offbeat bride:
Andy – Graphic/Web Designer
(and OBT member "inkledoo")

Her offbeat partner:
Jeff – Graphic/Web Designer

Location and date of wedding:
The ceremony was held outside in Forest Heights Park.
The reception was held at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, AB — 08.08.09

What made our wedding offbeat:
Our wedding ended up being exactly what I had imagined — fun, causal, bright, design oriented, and full of our favorite people all wrapped into one day!

A few of the highlights were:

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The offbeat bride: Nadine, Tracer

Her offbeat partner: Alex, Industrial Mechanic

Location & date of wedding: Germany, Black forrest, Rottweil, City Hall of Rottweil — 11.12.2009 & 12.12.2009

What made our wedding offbeat: The first thing is that we are offbeat ourselves. We are heavily tattooed on the complete body. When Alex asked me to become his wife we planned to get married five month later. As we both have no money on our site, we decided to create a low-budget wedding. The complete wedding with 150 guests costs under 4000 €.

Our wedding was complete done by us. Every single detail was planned and tinkered by me. I looked for bargains every day, bought many things used, and spent all my time for every detail for this wedding.

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The offbeat bride: Trish – graphic designer

Her offbeat partner: Patrick – technical operator

Location & date of wedding: Wandsworth Town Hall, London UK — 14th November 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We didn't have a lot of cash, and we didn't want a shiny 'perfect' day. We wanted to get married with all our friends and have a great party!

Continue reading "Trish & Patrick's tattooed, gothic, rockabilly, metal funfest!" →