The offbeat bride: Gina Lee, Dress Designer/Maker & Illustrator

Her offbeat partner: Wayne, Residential Caretaker & Landscape Gardener

Location & date of wedding: Southwark Registry Office (ceremony) & Le Piaf (reception) on September 5th, 2008 in London, England

What made our wedding offbeat: The one single thing that really made our wedding offbeat (aside from the bride and groom) was the guests. We were very particular about who we invited. We only invited people who we were very fond of and who primarily (regardless of how they look) think outside of the box.

Continue reading "Gina Lee & Wayne's 1950s London Love-Fest Wedding" →

The offbeat bride: Lisa, Office Monkey (now with grad student action!)

Her offbeat partner: Teri, Grad student and Office Monkey

Location & date of wedding: Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis, MN on October 3rd, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We came in under our 5k budget, and still got our fancy to-do. We had board games, chess and card games, and a really (really really) tough puzzle instead of dancing — since our buddies don't dance and empty dance floors are depressing.

Continue reading "Lisa & Teri's Fancy Neo-Victorian Parlor Wedding" →

The offbeat bride: Kathleen, Non-Profit Arts Administrator

Her offbeat partner: Gilbert, Web Designer

Location & date of wedding: Casa Maria in San Juan Bautista, CA on October 11th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: My husband and I have been collaborating as artists for the past five years together. Our relationship was built on putting together DIY events at the non-profit art gallery we both work for (where we met!) and our wedding was no different.

Continue reading "Kathleen & Gilbert's Multi-Cultural Mambo/Swing Fiesta Wedding!" →

Seriously, when you get married in an outdoor location like Idaho's Snake River Canyon, who needs to worry about floral arrangements, chair covers, aisle runners, pom-poms or anything else?

To see more of Melissa's wedding (including the bowling alley reception!), head on over to her page on the OBT.