Another offbeat event for those in the northwest:

What: Reading and author Q&A
When: February 20th, 7pm
Where: University Bookstore Bellevue
990 102nd Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004
tel: 425-462-4500

I will probably bring my hula hoops and hoop outside the store for a bit, too.

If you're a Flickr user, I heartily encourage you to join the Offbeat Bride group and either submit your awesome photos or browse through the pool. Photos submitted to the pool are part of the gallery over there in the sidebar to your right, and I'll be featuring especially awesome ones regularly as offbeat wedding porn. Join now! Get in on the fun! Post your pictures! Overuse exclamation points just like me!

I was browsing around Flickr looking at quirky wedding photos tonight, I think this one is my favorite. I love Aussie Rebecca Mence's outfit, from the tip of her top hat right down to the boots.

Offbeat Bride may not be in bookstores for another month, but offbeatbride.com simply can't wait another day. So, I'm decreeing 2007 The Year Of The Offbeat Bride and unveiling the website.

There's a lot here — the requisite book information, but also what I hope will become a pretty robust batch of content, including this blog, an advice column, wedding porn, bride profiles, vendor profiles and links, and a bazillion other ideas that I'm scheming.

There are still some kinks being worked out (ug, I see the typo in the header image, and there are some navigation and design tweaks coming, and of course I'm still proofing copy all over the place) but I'd love your feedback. Everything work the way you expect? Anything broken? Pipe up!

Very special thanks and adoration to both my designer Carol Chapman and my ever-helpful webmaster, producer, and coder extreme J.M. Dodd.

(Cross-posted on Electrolicious)