The offbeat bride: Sarah, writer

Her offbeat partner: Jenn, typist

Location & date of wedding: Our meadow, Basom, NY. September 29, 2007

What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted our wedding to be a reflection of our deepest spirits - and said spirits just happen to have wings ;D

My wife is very much a Winter person, and I’m very much an Autumn person - so we came up with a vision of how we’d pull it off. Our dresses were sewn by my wife’s mother, and we ordered wings that would reflect the seasons. We couldn’t imagine a more magical place than our own meadow/backyard to get married in, so we dressed it up as a Faerie meadow - ribbons, flower petals and branches with autumn leaves were everywhere.

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My taste in wedding gowns tends toward the theatrical, and that goes a long way towards explaining why I just spent half an hour drooling over the couture gowns at Uptight Clothing. WOW. The photos in the Real Brides section make me want get married five more times, dressed in varying degrees of queenly regalia like this or this or this.

The prices are very high (especially with the pound-to-dollar exchange rate), but if your tastes run towards the fairy/goth/costumey, Uptight Clothing is a site well-worth perusing for inspiration. And hey: if you’ve got $6k to spend on a dress (reality check: that was the cost of my entire wedding!) then for godsake: get something like this!