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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*Insert sound of my soul being crushed* Image courtesy of Bellestyles.com

Every once in a while, I peek my head out of the safe, offbeat cave I've carved for myself here in this corner of the wedding industry and I get a terrible shock. See, I spend so much time over in my little niche that I forget about the rest of the wedding world and how icky it often is.

Case in point: this HARDY HAR HAR hilarious sign that you can buy for your ring bearer and flower girl to carry down the aisle, announcing that HO HO HO, this is your last chance to run!

Now, I get it: this is comedy. It's meant to provide a little moment of levity in a serious ceremony. But it hurts my head, and it hurts my heart, and here's why…

Offbeat Brides love our photographers. They are the ones who capture our weddings forever. We choose them for their talent and we know they can rock an offbeat wedding. Heck, lots of them are enthusiastic about the chance to shoot something a little different and have a lot of fun. Some of them are even offbeat themselves. So why the heck do so many photographers have Facebook profiles and websites that don't reflect this?

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!