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Real offbeat weddings: Patricia & Christiaan's Intimate Outdoor Family Fun-Day Wedding
Posted by Offbeat Intern

6 Jan 2009

The offbeat bride: Patricia, journalist

Her offbeat partner: Christiaan, assistant bank manager

Location & date of wedding: The Thatchery in Johannesburg, South Africa on October 12th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: Firstly, the wedding budget was pretty low. Originally, I thought the most offbeat aspects were the fact that we were barefoot and I was wearing wings.

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Advice: Not so offbeat after all
Posted by Ariel

16 Dec 2007

I appreciated this post from a message board I found in my referral logs:

People planning alternative weddings sometimes think that by having an alternative wedding they're automatically avoiding the scariness that comes with the Great White. But the same sort of problems apply: you can be fixated on the party and not the marriage; you can turn into a frightening Bridezilla still; you can over-spend; you can over-tax everyone else; you can still show unrestrained greed.

Bride sues over flower color —

The flowers cost $27,435.14. The lawsuit asks for more than $400,000 in restitution and damages. (thanks, Kimberly)

The reverse bridentity crisis —

Why am I ashamed to say that I can't wait to to look pretty, to eat good cake, and then spend my life with a guy that kicks so much ass it should be illegal? Why am I ashamed for having opinions about our wedding at all?

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