Before there was offbeatbride.com, there was Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides (Seal Press 2007).
A wedding memoir crossed with a tipster handbook, Offbeat Bride offers 200 pages of inspiration, encouragement, advice, and celebration of aisles less traveled.
Seattle author Ariel Meadow Stallings humorously recounts planning her "freakfest" wedding, and shares anecdotes and advice from dozens of nontraditional brides from across the United States.
Presented in 47 quick chapters, ranging from "The Pressure and the Proposal" all the way to "A Rose by Any Other (Last) Name," Offbeat Bride is filled with sanity-saving tips, advice, and stories to reassure even the most out-there, nontraditional bride that she's downright normal.
12 reasons you need to read the book and not just the website:
- You want to know how to save money by starting your own wedding co-op (page 77)
- Even if you're not engaged yet, it's a funny-as-hell memoir packed with LOLs. If you're worried about your not-yet-fiancé freaking out about you reading a wedding book, just tell 'em a friend wrote it.
- You're looking for the whole story about why Ariel's mom was talking about "Humanure" the night before the wedding (page 141)
- Because you want to know the one question you should ask anyone you're considering as a wedding photographer (page 151)
- You want to know how to deal with stoners at your wedding reception (page 179)
- You want to read the world's only wedding book that includes the phrase "ass-fucking"
- You need to know what information you should put on your "wedsite" (page 37)
- You want to be the awesome friend who gives engaged couples the one wedding book that won't make them feel awful about themselves.
- Because you want great stories that have never appeared on offbeatbride.com.
- You want to know what one article of wedding attire you should never drive in (page 49)
- You're worried about post-wedding depression and the frustration of "getting wifed" (page 202)
- Because you love this website and want to support the woman who supports you!
