Let’s steal a bottle of champagne from the buffet table and sneak out back with Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November!

Y’all are familiar with my loathing of traditional wedding website aesthetics, which usually seem to include lots of doves and bells and pink and BLEAH. I may have pink hair, but I am not into pinky-pink over-femmey wedsites.

It seems that Nearlyweds! is one of the first to finally really get it — not all brides want frilly, froofy websites!

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Aww, who’s that adorable little tot wobbling down the aisle with a basket of rose petals? Why, it’s Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November! Join me as I get elbow deep in the Wed 2.0 geekery of the Nearlyweds! wedding websites.

Ok, let’s start with the basics: Nearlyweds! is the wedsite service for those of you want great wedding website designs, total control over your website content, absolutely no ads anywhere, and lots of slick features like interactive maps, blogging with comments, etc. Dude, your guests can add their own wedding porn, even! Let’s just call it Wed 2.0 and get the pun out of the way.

Nearlyweds! is fellow Seattle-based wedding biz, and you know how you can tell?

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Remember a few months ago when I announced that I was adding Google AdSense ads to offbeatbride.com? Well, some of you have probably noticed that I’ve started getting more of my own advertisers over the last few months — this is awesome because it means I can justify removing the stupid Google AdSense ads! WHEW. No more “Romantic Luxury Mexico Vacations” in my sidebars!

Unlike AdSense, Offbeat Advertisers are all filtered by me (ie, I don’t accept all the ads I’m offered — I only accept advertisers who fit with the site’s values), and (even more important to me a copywriter and control freak ) all the advertising copy is all written by me. That sound you hear is me putting down the razors that have been perched over my wrists after reading some of the poorly written tripe that has been showing up in my sidebars. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do but seriously: whew.

Thanks to all the Offbeat Advertisers who have made this switch possible by supporting the site and enabling me to keep cranking out Wedding Porn for all my ladies. Yay!

Lots of awkward, drunken toasts to mywedding.com for being Offbeat Bride’s sponsor for the month of August! I’ll be poking around mywedding.com this month and writing about my adventures, this week looking at their wedding blog.

I trawl a lot of sites on the web looking for the most interesting tid-bits about offbeat and authentic weddings — and mywedding.com’s wedding blog is one of the many in my RSS reader. While it’s not exclusively focused on nontraditional content, I’ve loved Nicole’s advice on non-rose wedding flowers and dealing with guest list woes. Plus, Nicole has a nice smile (that’s her over there to the right).

They also cover a fair amount of green/eco-wedding topics on the wedding blog, including tips for reducing the waste of your wedding shower and thoughts about responsible registries.

So go check out mywedding.com’s wedding blog and if you like it, add their RSS feed to your reader of choice.

Thanks again to mywedding.com for sponsoring this month. Offbeat Brides, please oh please show your support for offbeatbride.com by giving mywedding.com some lerv.

I’d like to reach up mywedding.com’s dress to fetch its garter, because they’re Offbeat Bride’s sponsor for the month of August! I’ll be poking around mywedding.com this month and writing about my adventures, this week looking at their local wedding planning guides.

The only problem with running a national/international wedding blog is that sometimes it all comes down to location, location, location. When someone emails me asking about help with venue ideas in Santa Barbara or an offbeat caterer in Houston, I have no idea what to say because, well, I live in Seattle and I don’t know shit about Houston. Or Santa Barbara.

But not so with mywedding.com! They have a local wedding planning guide for dozens of American cities, ranging from the biggies you might expect like a New York and Los Angeles, but also Kansas City and Raleigh.

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Putting advertising on this website wasn’t a decision I took lightly, and I figured I’d explain myself for those who are interested. And so, you get a numbered list! Isn’t this fun?

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