What do you get when two British circus performers marry? You get a bride in a candy-apple red dress (made by Miss Katie) with matching candy-apple red pin-up hair, arriving at her courthouse wedding in a gold car with an eye-patched skull on top. You get hottie bridesmaids in little top hats and a fabulous red cake, and from the looks of it, one HELL of a reception.

You’ll find all this and more in the photos from Lucifire and Dave Tusk’s April 2006 wedding. Take your time going through the hundreds of photos on Lucifire’s Myspace. Bonus sweetness: on her website, the bride describes herself as “profoundly, ridiculously, disgustingly happily married.”

(Thanks to Kate for the heads up on these shots!)

Seriously, could I love my offbeat Bay Area brides any more than I already do?

We’ve got the bride in a smashing red wedding dress, the groom in a green top hat, the officiant in a purple wizards cap (!!!), stilt-walkers from Mystic Family Circus, and an attendant in feathers ‘n’ leather festival finery. This photoset calls it a Happy Pagan Costume Love Wedding. I’m suspecting these are friends-of-friends who I haven’t met yet, because seriously: these are exactly my kinda freaks. (Have I mentioned that my husband is an aerialist? We know a lot of circus folks.)

(Thanks to utah raptor for the photo!)

I love these photos of San Francisco couple Monica Tse and Mike Templeton Brady, who said “I Do” on stilts! Check out the full stilt-walker wedding photo series, and thanks to Amy for the link!

How do aerialists get married? If they’re Marina and James, members of the Los Angeles performance troupe The Clan Destino, they get married on a trapeze. Check out the gorgeous photos from this very offbeat wedding.