Wanna see the perfect cake for your Grand Canyon wedding?
We’re total Grand Canyon nerds, so our cake for our Grand Canyon wedding was completely geologically accurate. We even decided to turn the cake cutting into a geology lesson.
Feed your guests and fix all your problems with fruit bouquets!
How do you simultaneously appease family demands for “more than just cake” while also bringing joy to all your guests with restricted diets AND adding an explosion of color to your reception tables? Oh AND providing wedding favors?! Fruit bouquets are the answer to all these woes as more, as Offbeat Bride Tribe member Moonlitfractal explains…
Dragons, tattoos, cakes, and taking the plunge in this week’s Reader Round-Up
This photo from our Offbeat Bride Flickr pool is killing me, y’all. But wait ’til you catch a glimpse of Stephanie’s visible back tattoo, oh and Tribesmaid Chloebell’s outfit change, and another Tribesmaid’s cheesecake pinwheels, and an under-water Save the Date, and a photo from the SCOTUS Rally for Marriage Equality that made me cry…
Anna & Russell’s scientific gothic humanist wedding
A rockin’ red dress, a stack of chocolatey brownies, and a museum celebrating all things science? Check, check, double check! The Humanist ceremony upstairs in a library full of scientific texts, the reception downstairs among funky science installations, and a giant statue of a favorite scientist for photos ops round out this wedding’s fabulous setting. Read on for more… for SCIENCE!
Cristina & Adrian’s colorful, lesbian, vegan night of fun
These two put the hot pink in pinky swear, and I mean HOT. The crafty duo included lots of personal details — duct tape bouquets, vegan noms, bright ties, toys, a puppy, and science! All to celebrate a steamy romance surrounded by family and friends… with a sweet surprise translation of a favorite love song. Aww, now they’ve put the aw in hawt, too!
Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta instead of cake?
In Sweden we have a cake for all occasions but mostly associated with summer time and burials, the Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta. I started requesting that my cake would be a Smörgåstårta not only for its awesome versatility but also for its wonderful properties. Here follows the definitive account of the properties of the most awesome of all Cakes. The one cake to rule them all.