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How to throw a DIY wedding. Step one: Peruse this archive. Step two: Take it all in. Step three: Profit!

What to buy after Christmas alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Buy these 7 things on sale after Christmas for your wedding next year

Planning a wedding for this upcoming year and want to be strategic about saving some cash right now? PRO-TIP: After Christmas and New Year’s is the ideal time to score deals on decor, lights, gift sets, and other wedding items that can be stashed away for your wedding day. Here are the seven items on which we’d stock up at the after-holiday sales to have your wedding looking super chic on the cheap.

WeddingMix wedding videos alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How to have fun and easily DIY your free wedding video with WeddingMix

If you don’t want to go the traditional videographer route — bright lights with a stranger attached to a big ol’ camera in your face — our longtime sponsor WeddingMix is a great option for you DIY types. WeddingMix is all about having your friends and family document the day, then hooking you up with an ultra-unique, affordable wedding video.

50+ free wedding DIY printable downloads from @offbeatbride

50+ MORE free wedding printables and DIY wedding downloads

Hey DIY-loving fiends: once upon a time, I went on a mad search for a ton of free wedding printables. We’ve got another giant batch o’ free wedding printables to quench your need to get hands-on with your decor, invites, favors, and signs. Let’s jam about what new free wedding printables we’ve found in our mad searching.

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Theresa & David’s Sonoma County artists’ farm wedding

We don’t even know where to start with this explosion of awesome, so let’s just gush: metal rocket ships, plastic reindeer, vintage arcade games and a jukebox, wine barrels, vintage furniture, antlers, succulents… all DIYed to blissful, farm-raised local perfection.
This couple and their friends are artists and IT SHOWS. The metal ceremony arch the groom made will knock you out, too. Oh, and wait until you hear the coincidence with the sweetheart table chairs!

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Liz & Marc’s traveling fall circus wedding

Let’s see here: we’ve got a circus theme with a dog dressed as a lion, “boot-in-ears,” a bearded lady, a carousel horse guestbook, a midway full of games, a flash mob ceremony, an after-party with a ball pit, and a footie pajama football brunch the next day. If you can even process all that awesome, you’ll need to make even more room in your brain for the first dance surprise. Hint: a marching band was involved!

haybale seats alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Charlie & Quinten’s barefoot faux-forest indoor picnic wedding

Tons of handmade pillows, hay bales, leaves, and picnic blankets — it must be an outdoor wedding, right? Nope! But it may as well be. Due to some wet weather, these two brought the outdoors in for a green and brown faux-forest wedding. Even the flower girl and ring bearer got in on the theme action. Chalk up some bare feet, some lovely poetry, and a big ol’ party, and you’re ready for forest-y fun indoors.