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Real Weddings: Global

Although we’re based in the United States, we feature weddings from around the world — especially the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Zillah & Jon’s handfasting picnic wedding in a field

Zillah & Jon wanted a simple wedding. So they rented a field and had a picnic/mini-festival wedding. Even though it was in a field they were still able to have their home-comforts: they had a bar with fridges, sofas and a pool table!

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Fiona & Rob’s Brideshead Revisited meets Roman Holiday wedding

Fiona & Rob turned their six week vacation, into an excuse to have a small destination wedding in Rome!

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Ana & Kim’s pinup-inspired cabaret wedding

Ancient nations’ wedding traditions + wiccan rituals + xaman beliefs + retro cabaret style = THIS.

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Cath & Iain’s colorful and geeky garden hootenanny

Cath & Iain didn’t chose a theme, which meant they had the freedom to do anything they wanted.

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Joey & Maxine’s lesbian, drumtastic, family and friends wedding fest

“We chose to throw caution to the wind and have the big white wedding many dream of – that however is where the traditional aspect ended!”

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Sarah & Adam’s chilled out, nature-bound Sunday wedding

Sarah & Adam had strong thoughts on marriage equality in their ceremony. So instead of taking a wedding and picking out the parts they didn’t like. They built their wedding from scratch.