16 wonderful and weird wedding proposals (that totally worked!)
If there’s one thing we love, it’s a good proposal story. Now, we really love an intimate, meaningful, and sweet proposal, but sometimes you just want to hear a neat story of nerdy, wonderful, and weird wedding proposals. We’ve seen some amazing offbeat wedding proposals and we wanted to round up some of the ones we’ve featured, some we love from around the web, and some that have just become legend. Let’s go down the rabbit hole of geeky, romantic, and wonderfully weird wedding proposals.
The succulent flower crown of our Mother Nature dreams
We know ya’ll LOVED this succulent headpiece we featured a while back and I just recently found this masterpiece on Etsy. Why just have succulents when they can be paired with fabulous preserved roses, too?
It’s been one year since the SCOTUS decision that legalized same-sex marriage…
As the first anniversary of the SCOTUS decision that legalized same-sex marriage rolls around, we remember that the continued perseverance of these communities are making a difference. Is it still mind-blowingly slow and frustrating and hard? Hell yes. But as Lin Manuel Miranda so heart-wrenchingly uttered at The Tonys, “love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.” This anniversary, marked with the pain of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history (which targeted the LGBT and people of color communities), has to remind us to keep fighting. Let’s take a look back at some of our coverage of the various legal decisions and a few of our own favorite LGBT weddings we’ve featured.
A felt succulents tutorial for all your rustic centerpieces, bouquets, and headpieces
Are you into succulents and want them to last forever and ever and ever? I’ve got a DIY project for super easy felt succulents to make into a bouquet, as your centerpiece, and even as a headpiece! Once these felt succulents are made, you can attach them to almost anything for a super fun and rustic vibe. Shall we learn how to make them? Let’s go.
Behold the vintage-chic decor at this industrial garden party wedding
Vanessa and Octavia had their industrial garden party wedding at the super industrial-chic venue, Tap Architecture in Oklahoma City. Vanessa wore a stunning Mexican-inspired wedding gown (a nod to her heritage) complete with flowers in her hair and a wildflower bouquet put together by friends. Octavia wore a short contemporart dress and a giant flower fascinator that we LOVED. Don’t miss the crafty vintage decor!
Warning: this sloth cake topper will induce intense squeeing
OMG are you seeing what I’m seeing here?! For all those sloth fans (and I do include Kristen Bell here — watch her flip the fuck out about a sloth), this sloth cake topper is the holy grail of adorable cake toppers.