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Real Weddings: Northeast US

From New England to New York and Rhode Island to Long Island, couples in the Northeast have their own distinct brand of offbeat. A little urban, and little upstate, and a bit of an edge — we love you East Coast offbeat couples! Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Caitlin & Rob’s Help! A Nom-Monster Ate Our Wedding!

After six years together (four of which were spent mostly apart due to Rob’s Army enlistment and Iraq deployment) Caitlin & Rob finally decided to get married. They both donned their best converse and rocked out at Caitlin’s grandparents’ property overlooking the ocean in Maine!

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Marcella & Derek’s World of Warcraft meets Spanish carnivale wedding

Marcella & Derek are both gamer geeks who met while playing World of Warcraft. Since they met through the game they had to include it in their wedding. So they had a spanish carnival meets World of War craft themed wedding!

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Kavisa & Schuyler’s nature-embracing Baha’i wedding

Kavisa & Schuyler’s goal was to make their wedding as eco-friendly as possible while expressing themselves and their religious beliefs. Since Kavisa is Baha’i her mom read a Baha’i prayer. Then as a tribute to her heritage they jumped the broom at the end!

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Lilana & Eric’s Doctor Who vegas elopement and victorian wedding

Up next for elopement week is Lilana & Eric. Eric surprised Lilana with a treasure hunt that led to a Doctor Who themed elopement in Las Vegas. You may remember Lilana from her super swanky hot pink sneakers! -Coco

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April & Zack’s handfasting ceremony and murder mystery luncheon

Most of April & Zack’s friends don’t dance, so they were forced to come up with a creative form of entertainment for their wedding. Their solution: murder mystery game!

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Marisa & Patrick’s Pi day wedding in a science museum

Marisa & Patrick based the theme of their wedding entirely on the location. Since they are science/comic nerds the venue of their dreams turned out to be a science museum. So they held their ceremony in the planetarium and used science paraphernalia as decorations!