WTF!? | Offbeat Bride

This is Offbeat Bride's archive of WTF!? posts.

For alt-brides, wedding planning offers a non-stop stream of WTF moments, from cringe-worthy articles to heinous wedding supplies to traditions that make you want to start cutting yourself. Here, we document the worst of the worst.

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Jehnua has a few extra wedding dresses that she got super cheap on Craigslist. One of them 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…

Bring them to work, hand them to your co-workers, grab guns and have a photo shoot! (Again I say, obviously.)

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…

Wedding themes can be awesome. But they're totally not necessary! Check out what happened when one bride felt forced into choosing a theme.

Offbeat wedding planner, Laura Guerrie They ♥ OBB; we ♥ them , was contacted by "TV people" who claimed they were interested in her business for a reality show. Turns out, they weren’t actually interested in Laura, they were interested in putting together a circus sideshow “look at these freaks” spectacle.

Find out what happend when one wedding planner stood up for offbeat brides everywhere.

In which Megan answers the question of "what is with the trend of people not smiling in their wedding photos?" And in doing so, she unveils a secret about her wedding that she never made public on Offbeat Bride until now.

So they are now selling wedding decor at BHLDN, Anthropologie's foray into the wedding world. Personally, I sort of love them in a very conflicted way. There are some super-cute things that I would definitely consider buying/DIYing, but I wanted to share two hilariously "Wha?" offerings.

I'm putting this out there because I believe I can't be the ONLY ONE to have felt this way. Okay, here's the deal: I hate the word "fiance." So my husband and I came up with some alternative ways to refer to each other during our engagement. Feel free to adopt them!