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Real Offbeat Weddings

We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to simple and small weddings. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Misty & Dell’s Wiccan/Pagan, Corseted Boob-Fest, Halloween Wedding

To celebrate the season, we’re featuring a Halloween wedding every week for the month of October! The Offbeat Bride: Misty, CNA Her Offbeat Partner: Dell, Repo Man Location & date of wedding: Meditation Garden at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, VA — October 31, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We definitely bucked tradition by […]

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Melissa & Joshua’s Brisbane cocktail party wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Melissa, Administration Officer (and OBT member!) Her Offbeat Partner: Joshua, Carpenter Location & date of wedding: Brisbane Registry Office, Australia, — Saturday, March 21 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: First of all, we married interstate and planned everything online and made about 80% of our purchases and decisions online. We got […]

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Maya & Adam’s “Starry Starry Night” wedding

We had to have a cool party, but on a budget. The community room at the Austin Museum of Art was a perfect little chapel for us, and it fit our “Starry Starry Night” theme! (Adam and I are both astronomy geeks.) Oh and the groom’s one request for the party?: LASERS!

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Bandora & Michael’s Foxtailed Pagan Handfasting

“We had a Pagan handfasting during our own weekend camping festival. The groom wore a kilt, we both had foxtails …”

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Tanya & Mark’s flamingo themed backyard wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Tanya, bookseller/crafty lady Her Offbeat Partner: Mark, administrator Location & date of wedding: Parents backyard in Northampton, PA — 6/6/09 What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted to keep our wedding fun, whimsical, and more like an outdoor party. I made everything I thought I could, allowing me to show of my […]

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Monica & Tony’s historic village garden & carousel wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Monica, Market Information Administrator (and OBT member “Monk“) Her Offbeat Partner: Tony, Night Auditor Location & date of wedding: Faust Park, Chesterfield MO, the historic village garden & carousel — 8/30/08 What made our wedding offbeat: We made decisions based on what we wanted to do rather than what we were supposed […]