Remember photographer Lauren McGlynn? She who brought us The Golden Soul Love Shakedown wedding? Well, she's back and has now become our first UK wedding photography sponsor! Lauren's been based in Austin, TX for the last five years, and staring this summer she'll be permanently based out of Scotland.

In honor of her new digs, Lauren would like to offer up a new Offbeat discount to both UK and Texas couples, and offer the rest of us some brand spankin' new wedding porn from Michelle and Dan's Catholic wedding in East Austin.

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Thanks to OBB reader Danielle for sending us this great piece of writing from the perspective of the people that help us find our dream dresses…

Photo courtesy of Romana Klee.

One of the things I love about Ariel’s vision for Offbeat Bride is her effort to make it a “snark-free” zone. I love all the positive energy, all the everyone is accepted vibe. Well, everyone but one person, I’ve noticed. There is one person its okay to snark about, one person who is simply contemptible. Don’t know who I’m talking about?

Why, it’s that lady in the bridal salon! You know, that symbol of everything that’s wrong with the whole wedding industrial complex. The one who, it seems, does nothing but make brides feel bad the moment they step in the door. That horrible person who tries to sell you an overpriced white frou-frou dress when all you wanted was a simple dress in your price range. They’re evil, evil people right?

The only problem I have with that is that I used to be sales person in bridal salon.

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Thanks to Emily's Junk for submitting this to the OBB Flickr pool.

Not that I have anything against Etta Jame's "At Last" or Michael Buble's "Everything," — they're both perfect first dance songs — but I've heard them both WAY to many times at weddings. So, combining my database of musician friends (some of whom made the list), Shrie's music writing experience and Ariel's… whatever the hell Ariel listens to (which, I believe, is literally everything), the OBB team has compiled a list of totally not overused first dance songs, from the silly, to the romantic, to the extremely controversial!

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If the bride in the photo pictured above looks familiar, it's because we've featured her before. In fact we've featuring weddings shot by Los Angeles-based photographer Pixie Vision Productions so frequently that we've even assigned Pixie her own tag!

And it's no wonder because Pixie's get's TONS of juicy offbeat weddings and creates even juicier wedding porn from them. Keep reading to check out more that juicy offbeat wedding porn from Pixie Vision Productions…

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OBT member Jessica was Googling flowers the other day and discovered this totally awesome bouquet alternative:

Photo courtesy of ZoonyBalloons.com

It's from Zoony Balloons and it's called "the Zoony Bouquet." And as Jessica noted, "how cute would this be for a carnival or circus themed wedding!?!"

Well, lemme answer that question Jessica… Very. That's how cute this would be.