Check out OBT member Corinne's hand-drawn wedding maps in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien!

Corinne did this herself using tracing paper over an official park map of her wedding location.

"I love the maps in Tolkien books, so I just tried to emulate that style. Then I found parchment-style paper at the copy store… I actually didn't know I could [do this], but given a sharp pencil and a little bit of tracing paper, there's not a lot I CAN'T do."

Let's hope your guests have an easier time getting to your wedding than Frodo had getting to Mordor!

Attention everyone searching for a the perfect vintage wedding dress! The Vintage Bride is about to become your best friend…

The Vintage Bride is an amazing resource for authentic vintage wedding items — dresses from pre-WWII to the 1960s, they have vintage veils, heck, they even have vintage cake toppers!

Since all of the dresses from The Vintage Bride are actually vintage (no reproductions here) they are all one of a kind, many were even hand sewn, AND they're an eco-friendly choice, as you are re-using these gowns.

Each dress you see on The Vintage Bride has been selectively chosen for its unique details and flattering style. And there are tons of variety on the site — big and pouffy, to sexy and slinky.

Hi, have you met my favorite dress? Yeah, seriously, I'd rock this in a freaking heartbeat and I'd never take it off. And it's under $1000. In fact, most of the dresses are under $1000 and a lot of them are as low as $325.

And don't let small sizes discourage you — Rose, the owner of The Vintage Bride tells us that most of the dresses have trains that could provide enough fabric for a seamstress to add some panels if necessary.

The Vintage Bride even has perfect dresses for your rehearsal dinner, send-off outfits or civil ceremonies, like cocktail style dresses with matching jackets, like this beauty…

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Sometimes the talent level of our OBBs astound me. OBT member Heather aka. "Hev" made these Victorian duck busts to use as cake toppers for her upcoming wedding.

"The FH and I knew that we wanted ducks on the cake and when I went looking for toppers, I just couldn't find a decent pair of mallards. So the plan was to sculpt them myself as just boring little ducks. But then after seeing the film Fantastic Mr. Fox, it dawned on me that our ducks should be dressed to match our Neo-Victorian, old-timey theme."

They look absolutely amazing. And I had to inquire about HOW she accomplished this. The short story is that Hev is a scenic artist, so she does this type of thing all the time for film, theater, and photography shoots. The long story is as such:

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H'okay… thanks to Offbeat Mama reader and mommy blogger Laura who passed this on to Offbeat Shrie, who sent this on to me! Whew.

This colorful bride is Megan (love the name) at her rainbow themed wedding in a public park in Nevada City, California. Megan tells me that it was all planned and carried out in a matter of three weeks. And that's from proposal to wedding!

Megan sez: "I LOVE colors, as you can see from my photos. I made my dress 100% from scratch all by myself. I wanted it to be very colorful and ruffly so that's what I did. I also made my little top hat because I didn't really want to make a veil, as my hair was already colorful enough and I didn't want to cover that up."

And I am absolutely in love with Megan's hair, by the way. Also, her friends seem kind of awesome as well.

Well, basically there's a lot of crazy and wonderful stuff about this wedding. So head over to Megan's Flickr page if you want to see more photos from Megan and Ryan's outdoor rainbow wedding.

Photo Pink is back, YAY! You may remember Photo Pink from when we profiled them before, and they became super popular with OBBs almost immediately…

"I saw this post and contacted Photo Pink, since I ve been hunting for a few months to find a photographer. Not even 24hrs into the process they are AWESOME. I highly recommend talking with these folks; they are friendly, responsive and most of all REAL PEOPLE." -Heather

Well, now they're back to share with us Heather and Bryan's Brooklyn wedding, complete with tons of awesome offbeat details, captured perfectly (of course) by photographers Liesl and Randy.

Keep reading to see some beautiful NY wedding porn and get the info on their sweet Offbeat Bride discount…

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