Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, weighs in on Offbeat Bride:

Some girls dream about their wedding. Others consider skipping the ceremony altogether. Ariel Meadow Stallings marries tradition with non-conformity by acknowledging that many women face a "bridentity crisis" and that feminist wedding planners do exist. Her tips are very 2007. To wit, don't drive in a corset and top your cake with action figures. Stallings draws from her own wedding experience, making the book more personal. Her biggest worry was how to handle stoner guests. Turns out, they just helped spread the love.

Read the full section on nontraditional weddings: globeandmail.com: Get me to the church on time – in a hybrid

I love this idea for a wedding cake contest, posted as a comment to a Lifehacker thread about budget weddings.

Our baker went Chapter 11 the month before our wedding, and so we told all the guests to bring a cake if they wanted to eat a cake, and we'd award prizes. We had 15 entries, some very simple, some really complex and amazing. A ton of fun, really interesting additional wedding-day activity (the contest), more food, more involvement.

Holy hell. My brain almost exploded from the gorgeousness and sheer amazatude of Aly and Elroi's stunning wedding in Atlanta. Let's start with their wedsite, which has one of my favorite wedding party pages of all time. The descriptions are hilarious and I love the ushers' hand signal discussion.

Then there's the wedding photography, which was done by Our Labor and Love and must have cost a fortune because it's stunning. Sadly, the online gallery is built from flash, so I can't directly link to individual photos, but go look at them all and check out the bridesmaids' hair (love the feathers!) and the amazing portraits of the couple, and the ceremony photos and and and … oh my god.

Just spend a while looking at all the pictures — they'll take a while to load because the galleries are huge. You'll be inspired by Aly's handmade blue dress, and the bad-ass wedding party, Elroi's smile, and the officiant, and the bird-topped cake that matches the bride's dress, the vegetarian menu, and and and…! Just go. Just go look. It's one of the most beautiful weddings I've ever seen, gay or straight.

Also, check out Aly's write-up on Kvetch. I got all misty. And then there's this article about the whole shebang, which was documented by a television crew for a reality show on Logo.