Members of the OBT already know Kat — she’s one of my beloved moderators! Here’s the full story on her awesome Solistice wedding

The offbeat bride: Kat, bookseller and OBT moderator

Her offbeat partner: James, writer

Location & date of wedding: My dad & step-mum’s house, Lantzville, BC. June 21, 2008, Summer Solstice

What made our wedding offbeat: We managed to pull off a spectacular wedding with a very limited budget and a lot of help from our families and friends. Our visibly offbeat elements included my red dress and glittery Betsey Johnson shoes, the men’s Converse shoes and skull ties, my bridesmen, our Buffy & Angel cake topper and our Handfasting.

The real offbeat aspect was that the wedding was 100% a reflection of the two of us. Having a handfasting was really important to me, and my non-Wiccan husband was totally into it. Our ceremony was officiated by two women and I was walked down the aisle by both my parents, elements that reflected our feminist values.

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I guess I’m on a colored crinoline & wedding hat kick this week.

(HA! I said KICK! And look at the picture here … where they appear to be kicking! Totally unintentional stupid pun, I swear.)

Painful puns aside … speaking of kicks, how cute are the bride and groom’s shoes?

You should probably just click right over to Mrs. Lippy’s fabulous photos of her UK wedding.

If you’re a member of the OBT, then you know that one of our mods, Kathleen, just got married this weekend in British Columbia, wearing a fabulous fire engine red wedding dress.

The first few fabulous photos have been uploaded on Flickr. Can’t wait to see more! Thanks to Kat for all her work as an OBT mod these past six months.

(Thanks to kat mountain for the photo!)

Everyone loves chucks at a wedding!

More pics of this All-Star wedding over here.

Prepare yourself for some guh-guh-guhmazing wedding porn from One Love Photo, based here in my homeland of Western Washington.

When photographer Heather Gilson contacted me about advertising, I went to go peek around her website to see if she did work I thought my offbeat brides would enjoy.

And what did I see? Amazing mod garden ceremonies. Grooms in chucks. Wai Ching dresses. In other words: quintessential offbeat brides.

Want to keep feasting your eyes? (Nyom nyom nyom: wedding porn!) More One Love Photo shots below!

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The Bad-ass bridemaids of the day award clearly goes to this girl-gang of lovelies rocking their black-bowed dresses, Converse low-tops, and squadron of tats.

And the way they’re flanking the groom, they’ve made it clear — you mess with the bride, you mess with us.

Check out the rest of the shots from Courtney’s wedding.

(Thanks to courtneylynn for the photo!)