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california

From San Diego weddings to Los Angeles weddings to San Francisco weddings, California is one of our largest and most epic states for offbeat weddings.

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Beautiful and bad-ass wedding pics from Los Angeles photographer Michael Andrews

Michael Andrews is a wedding photographer based in Los Angeles with a background in photojournalism and documentary photography. So that means he’s a bad-ass at capturing the moments as they happen. Or as Michael puts it, “My work is true to the day and the vision of couples I work with. I want to get the real shit, otherwise, why bother doing this!?” Amen brothah!

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Funky photos from Sunday and Michele’s Bowers Museum wedding

Check out some of these shots from Sunday and Michele’s Wedding at The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. It’s got amazing little hats, an adorable bride and groom in a museum setting… Hot bridesmaids in slate grey with hot pink clutches instead of bouquets… And awesome shoes!… To see more of this funky museum […]

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YAY BEST DAY EVER: Shana & Jessica’s glitter-fied backyard rock ‘n’ roll wedding

On day two of Pride Week we have Shana & Jessica. They wanted a wedding that resembled their lives: shiny, silly, loud, musical, glittery and full of the people they love. If that doesn’t tell you enough about the two, they wore their dresses again, to a Lady Gaga concert. Loves it! -Coco

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Erika & Ben’s theatre performance wedding and cocktail party

Erika & Ben performed the story of their eight-year relationship on stage of their old high school auditorium which was concluded by their actual wedding ceremony.

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Rachel & Tom’s Ultimate DIY Halloween Party with Nuptials

Rachel & Tom’s wedding doubled as a killer Halloween party: including eyeball sangria, sugar skulls, spider webs, and lots of hidden flasks.

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April & David’s Benevolent and Affable Order of the Jackalope

April & David love theme parties so they used their wedding as an excuse to throw a party with a theme of, “The Lodge of the Jackalope,” a fraternal Lodge in the 1950’s. Without giving too much away the best moment was an improvised line from the “Grand Buck” during the exchanging of the Pez.