Real Weddings | Offbeat Bride

This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Real Weddings posts.

We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to uber-simple no decor weddings.

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A 1920s-inspired wedding… but not in Gatsby style? Hell yes. This couple embraces their more humble beginnings with an intimate and laid-back celebration like their grandparents might have had. This included some vegan-friendly pot luck, old timey penny candy, vintage-style dresses and pocket watches, and super chic lavender and wheat bouquets.

It's our Bookish wedding theme week, and today we've got some book centerpieces (that guests could take home) and bookmark escort cards. Plus, you'll want to see the bride's gorgeous gold dress, the family's secret original song for the couple, and their cake buffet!

A librarian weds a book seller with Edgar Allan Poe details and a post-reception jaunt to a comic book store in Times Square? That's some major book nerdity for this week's Bookish weddings theme. This destination New York City wedding may have had everyone running late, but the scenery and city lights made it all worthwhile.

Harry Potter and sheet music cupcake stands, an amazing sheet music DIYed bouquet, and damask and Scrabble details, all on a tight budget and overcoming some powerful adversity. This wedding between two alumni at their university is as sweet as it is courageous. Enjoy the book details during our Bookish theme week.

Our Bookish theme week brings us this Indiana wedding with a librarian's touch: cupcakes on children's classics, "Just Married" Scrabble tiles, and library card invites. But a highlight of the day was definitely when their dog, Puppers, stood as fourth bridesmaid. Fur babies FTW!

The bride works in education, and with library card menus, "brown bag lunch" favors, school lockers, a big yellow school bus, and a yearbook guest book, this wedding was a perfect fit for our Bookish theme week. Plus, they took an unwanted extra wall in their reception area and turned it into a giant chalkboard for amazing chalk art! You will love this school yard-meets-marriage wedding.

My husband is a total foodie — he spends more time looking up awesome places to eat, and watching food travel shows, than most guys do watching sports. I love vampires, ghosts, and creepy things. Where else would we possibly go for our honeymoon than New Orleans!?

The bride may have worn an awesome dark blue dress that became the color inspiration for everything else, but the most fun to be had in this wedding was the photo booth, hidden gem venue, and the shoe game! They were a little worried about their first dance since they never practiced, but winging it looked like a hell of a good time.