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The offbeat bride: Saleha, Housing & Homelessness Advocate (and Tribe member)

Her offbeat partner: Greg, Cellist

Location & date of wedding: Burned down flour mill turned museum, Minneapolis, MN — July 11, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted a meaningful (and colorful!) wedding that expressed our values, but wasn't so in-your-face political that certain extended family members walked out.

Anyone who has taken a Gender Studies class knows all the standard stuff about marriage being an exchange of chattel, property, protecting the paternity of babies, etc. We can see how these historical dynamics still affect us.

You might remember Angela, aka. New York based wedding photographer Milestone Images, from our previous Q&A's. Well, she's back with more awesome wedding porn and a guest post in praise of Trash the Dress sessions.

It doesn't seem that long ago I was sporting short hair, dockers, button-downs and ties and hitting the bars. Now, I have hair down to the middle of my back, wearing a f'ing Vera Wang wedding dress and participating full force in the bridal industrial complex.

Seems like no matter what you do, someone's going to call you a Bridezilla. But we're DONE with the term. "Bridezilla" is the new "Tacky."

So you haven't shaved your armpits in years, but now you're planning a wedding. Do you rock the pit hair, or shave for just this one day?

Recommended reading from the Globe & Mail today: I took my wife's last name by Josiah Neufeld: So far the name change hasn't cost me more than a few hours of paperwork, some...