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This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Offbeat Bride the book posts.

This category tracks all my Offbeat Bride book news, all the way back to when I was still trying to figure out what the hell the book was about.

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JuniperZombie and her book, photo courtesy of Britney Layne

Yesterday marked five years since the day that I launched offbeatbride.com!

I wrote a whole big looooong rambling post about it over on the Offbeat Empire business blog yesterday, but to celebrate here on Offbeat Bride, I thought I'd just do a round-up of some of my very favorite shots of Offbeat Brides and their books…

Let's take a doodle back through the five years of reading together, shall we?

We all know I'm a sucker for photos of readers with their copies of Offbeat Bride — and this shot of Sara takes the cake!

Tribe member LucyTuppa explains how she was "saved by the book" as it were. Turns out, Ariel knows a thing or two about wedding planning… who woulda' guessed!? -Megs

"My partner of six years officially proposed last weekend! Hooray! And the very first thing I did was BUY THE BOOK! I just got it yesterday and have been burning through it and already there is advice in there about engagement and rings that I have found SO helpful and reassuring."

Before leaving home and heading off to her wedding, Djinnaya made sure to grab her Offbeat Bride book for a very special ceremony at her reception.

"It might have been the humanure essay, or possibly your wholehearted cheering of penis-cake eating as a married couple… whatever the reason, your book took a relatively crappy day in Iraq and made it fantastic. Yeah, I said Iraq…"

The revised and updated second edition of my book, Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives For Independent Brides, is now available for pre-order on Amazon! I know from the reader...

Needless to say, seeing an officiant use my book in this way cracks my ass up. For more photos from this Louisana wedding, including margarita cheesecake, some Rock Band at the...