Wedding trends | Offbeat Bride

This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Wedding trends posts.

I see a looooot of weddings in my work with offbeat bride. Here are a few of the trends that are catching my eye.

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A few of our selections for Etsy's new wedding trends section

Everyone's much-beloved artisan marketplace has launched a new wedding trends section, and we totally curated a section.

Of course, us being us, the trend we curated is Red Retro Rockabilly, but there are a ton of other trends highlighted that I know y'all are going to love — Alternative Bouquets, Banners & Pennants, Carnival-Themed Decor, and Feather Accessories. And so many others! You guys, seriously: if anyone knows indie trends, it's Etsy.

So, if the word "trend" doesn't make you grit your special snowflake teeth, get thee immediately to new Wedding trends section!

(Oh and PS: if the word "trend" DOES make you grit your teeth, you may want to read this post.)

Over on Offbeat Home, two sisters, Amy and Mistie, wrote an awesome guest post on how you can use your powers — and parties — for good. This is an idea that's near and dear to my heart as Aaron and I used our shark-themed wedding as a platform to raise awareness about shark finning. I also immediately thought of other offbeat weddings that have added a charitable element to their parties…

Jehnua has a few extra wedding dresses that she got super cheap on Craigslist. One she'll wear at her reception, another one she'll turn into a zombie bride dress for the annual local Zombie Walk (obviously!). But what to do with the others…

We received a press release about 2012 wedding trends — half of it was slightly interesting and the other half was just full of WTF-ery. Most notably this little gem…

An Offbeat Bride reader emailed us about her idea to wear a colored wedding dress while her bridesmaids don white ones. She also expressed her exasperation when it came to finding photos of other brides who have pulled off this fabulous color switcharoo. So, I thought I'd round up a few of our favorite examples from offbeat weddings past that just might have you re-thinking your wedding dress colors.

In the latest chapter of the on-going online discussion about hating trends and trashing wedding blogs, came this piece entitled, The Mason jar manifesto, wherein a photographer scolds couples, photographers, and wedding planners alike for putting effort into wedding details and trends like Mason jars and twinkly fairy lights. It's been pretty well received by other photographers as well as wedding industry people, but I wasn't a fan.

Maybe y'all will hate me and ride me out of the alternative wedding blogging biz on a rail when I say — details are the shit! Details make my day. Give me a great photo of some unexpected detail and I'm "dayum Ariel, did you check this out!? Let's feature this asap." You know why?

Is "offbeat" the new Martha? Are you trendy by trying to have a nontraditional wedding? Join me as I ramble about my thoughts on this, web stats, subcultures, anniversaries, and awesome blossoms.

There are a great many carbon offset calculators out there… but there's more to a wedding than just energy consumption, flights, cars, and hotels. There's also all the STUFF, and food, and waste, and, and, and… The tricky part is finding a good tool to calculate the carbon. I've found three so far, but only one seems suitable.