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You saw mrcharliebucket's amazing wedding shoe transformation, now read about the rest of the wedding outfit.

A sketch of my jumpsuit from the designer. I love it! It's just the right amount of butchly, but still feels wedding-ish.

Everyone, especially offbeat to-be-weds, experiences some astoundingly specific expectations other people have about what they will wear to be married. Figuring out what to say when faced with these people is a common topic around these parts. But what if you have no idea what you want to wear?

My partner and I have been engaged for about a year and a half, and she's had her dress figured out for about a year and five months. I, on the other hand, have looked for any excuse not to deal with what I'm wearing. It's not that I don't care. I just find the conversation really stressful. You see, my gender expression is caught somewhere between motorcycle riding, beer drinking, chest binding trans-masculine butch type, and jewel encrusted, glitter loving, spike heels sporting drag queen. Well, not between exactly; more like one extreme or the other.

Obviously, a wedding is the perfect excuse to whip out the sequins and glitter, but most of my family and friends have never seen me all tarted up and looking like RuPaul's latest protégé. I know, I know: be yourself! Wear what you want to! It's your day! But this is a wedding, not a diversity workshop. The last thing I want is a bunch of complicated questions about gender identity from a bunch of extended family members who only met me the day before (and who have probably been drinking). It can be awfully hard to untangle how you want to feel in your clothes from how you want others to react to them.

Add to that the fact that wedding clothing options (the traditional ones, anyway) are pretty much divided into two discreet camps of dresses and suits, and you end up with one conflicted genderqueer. I want the special sweet prettiness of a wedding gown, but I also want to wear pants and look butchly. Is that so much to ask?!

It turns out that no, it's not.

It's a good time to be an offbeat groom, my friends. In the past couple weeks we've introduced you to ties that don't suck and boutonnieres with mega personality. And now, thanks to Duchess Clothier, groom outfits have gone from "which rental suit would you like?" to almost as many styles and variations as there are wedding dress options. (As it should be!)

The theme for 2011's National Library Week is "Create your story." It don't know what says "Create your story" more than the two tuxes, book covered tables, and ceremony standing in the round in the fourth installment of Library Week weddings.

Check out a sneaky peaky of a wedding so full of greatness that it was submitted to us by several different OBB readers... Meghann and Shasta titled this photo "Epic Photo of...

In response to my post last week about what to wear if you don't want to wear a wedding dress or a suit, a commenter named Amanda sent me photos of her wedding outfit — half wedding dress, half pants. The outfit was designed and sewn by a local seamstress, and if you're a bride who can't decide, there's a LOT of inspiration here…

We spent a lot of time on OBB geeking out over bride fashion and accessories, but what about grooms? We do groom gear posts when we see something that blows our mind a little bit, and Jesse and his Victorian aesthetic definitely qualifies…

You want to look good at your wedding, but you also want to look like YOU, instead of someone wearing a costume. So WTF do you wear if you're not girly, but you're also not into butch formalwear?

Joe and Nova had two wedding ceremonies: one in the peak of summer in their home town of Perth, Australia (which they called our "Unlawful Union" as gay marriage is not recognised over there, and one a few days later in Canada.