The Offbeat Bride: Gaia, Solar Energy Designer

Her Offbeat Partner: Parker, Gourmet vegetarian chef

Location & date of wedding: Under our geodesic dome at our home in rural Michigan — April 20, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: Our ceremony was about equality and expressing our unique personalities. She's a buddhist, he's a pagan, so we chose very egalitarian vows representing both traditions.

We took all the typical sexist language out of the ceremony, questioned the origin of every tradition and sought out ideas and symbology from many cultures.

Continue reading "Gaia & Parker's Buddhist Pagan Geodesic Hippie Handfasting" →

There are backyard weddings, and then there are in-home weddings. I love the photos from Merry and Mark's at home wedding, as photographed by the magicians at Our Labor Of Love.

Check out all the photos over here and special kudos to A Practical Wedding for bringing this wedding to my attention!