When your culture is counter-culture: Lovingly explaining your more traditional wedding choices
Offbeat Bride has some wonderful, “Thank you for your interest but I’ve already decided” conflict resolution posts that apply to pretty much anything. But here are some specific scenarios if you, like me, find yourself a little bit too onbeat for others’ likings.
Alysa & Ansell’s geektastic extravaganza wedding
This week we’re celebrating our sci-fi-loving, fantasy-squeeing, and comic book-collecting couples. That’s right: it’s geek week! What do X-Men, a bounce house, a sno-cone machine, purple shoes and a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey card box have in common? This wedding!
Make these custom chalkboard mugs for your wedding party
I was totally stumped about what to get our wedding party as “thank you” gifts for helping us out on our wedding day. I mean, nothing I found was going to say thank you quite the way I want. After a lot of thinking, and probably too many hours on Pinterest, I settled on an idea I thought was fun… chalkboard mugs. Here’s how I pulled these off…
DIY Bride: an antidote for do-it-yourself overload
For those of us who love our DIY projects, they can be very fulfilling and/or very frustrating at times. To lighten the mood during those times when the projects may be crashing and burning or you’re just DIYed out, Mikala Bierma (of “Disappointing Gay Best Friend” fame) has you covered.
A blended family wedding with two brides and a long-lost ring
Nicole and Julie had a lovely outdoor ceremony in Washington full of emotional and sweet touches. They had lots of DIY projects and planned the whole shebang in only two months. One very sweet surprise for Julie was during the ceremony when Nicole and Julie’s father surprised her with her grandmother’s ring, which was thought to be lost.
Find your dream DIY wedding hair with How-to Hair Girl
For those of you that have been paying attention, Roxie Hunt, aka How-to Hair Girl, has regularly been giving us amazing DIY hair-style videos and inpsiration, she’s even got hair love for our grooms! For those that are all, “Wuh? DIY wedding hair? That’s a THING!?” We’re here to officially introduce you to our lovely sponsor, How-to Hair Girl — a DIY hair blogger with a fabulous category on DIY bride hair ideas. And she’s about to revolutionize your wedding hair…