I've written before about the awesome Hello Guest Book concept from my friend Megan Hill of Hello Super 8. Well, here's a brilliant execution of the concept — part photo booth, part wedding film, and a little bit of chalkboard & mustache awesomeness tossed in taboot!

For info on Hello Super 8's discount for Offbeat Brides on the Best West Coast, keep reading!

Continue reading "Keira & Dan's Hello Guest Book (+ special offer for Super 8 services!)" →

The Offbeat Bride: Carla, farmer/produce marketer

Her Offbeat Partner: Zeb, farmer/produce marketer

Location & date of wedding: Byzantine Church, and church hall in DuBois, PA — May 30, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: The wedding was a traditional Byzantine wedding which is somewhat offbeat even though its orthodox. Byzantine wedding in western PA; we warned people it would be just like the wedding in the move The Deerhunter.

Continue reading "Carla & Zeb's handmade everything, drumming dance party wedding" →

OBT member "Elisa" created some really unique looking wedding invitations with the use of a laser cutting machine.

We laser-cut the blue cardboard using our friend's thumbprint to access the zillion-dollar machinery at RMIT (for real! there's a gadget thingy attached to the machine that reads fingerprints! No access to the plebes!), and the orange paper is this weird transparent stuff that's heavier than tissue paper but still kind of see-through.

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We haven't gotten the 411 from the stripey bride that Ariel fell in love with last week YET — so here's another beautiful stripey bride profile, brought to you by her husband! (We love when the boys chime in.)

The Offbeat Groom: Lon, FileMaker Developer

His Offbeat Partner: Valarie Torres

Location & date of wedding: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco — October 12th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: She's punk rock; I'm mope rock; we're both geeks. Our wedding party and guests were drawn from equal parts giant Mexican family and an extended bicycle messenger family.

Continue reading "Valarie & Lon's bike messengers meet Mexican familia wedding" →

The offbeat bride: Jo, HR Management Information Manager (and OBT member "Jo")

Her offbeat partner: Nova, Financial Processor

Location & date of wedding: Perth Town Hall, WA, Australia AND on the frozen Alta Lake, Rainbow Park, Whistler, BC, Canada — Perth: 15 Feb 2009, Whistler: 20 Feb 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We had two wedding ceremonies, one in the peak of summer in our home town of Perth, Australia — which we called our "Unlawful Union" as gay marriage is not recognised over here — and one a few days later in Canada.

Continue reading "Jo & Nova: two brides, two countries with two weddings" →