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We showed you the first part of Chrissy & Danny's mind-blowingly gorgeous double wedding in Thailand. Now here is the scoop on their second wedding at a hotel in London. In typical London fashion it was filled with high-tea and croquet. -Coco

Photos by Phil Bourne

The offbeat bride: Chrissy, Secondary school teacher

Her offbeat partner: Danny, Secondary school teacher

Location & date of wedding: West Lodge Park Hotel, London, England — August 24, 2010

What made our wedding offbeat: This was our second wedding. We had been married in Thailand about four weeks earlier. This one was the legal one and the one for the parents to witness.

These two actually had two weddings, one in Thailand, and then the legal one in London. The Thai photos are jaw-dropping too (and omg, fashion alert: white dress + green shrug = WIN!), but today we speak not of monks and shrugs, but of cupolas and croquette…

Ruby & Martin decided they wanted to have a kid before they got married. So they did just that. Then when it when we came time to plan the wedding they wanted to make it as family oriented and kid friendly as possible!

On day four of farm week, we find ourselves headed to Siler City, North Carolina, where Charlie and Kristen had quite the afternoon affair at Celebrity Dairy Goat Farm. Their day was filled with lawn games, a petting zoo, a photo booth, and more!

Cara and Devin had a fabulous getting weddinged party in their backyard. Oh yeah, and their backyard just happens to be a goat farm.

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