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The offbeat bride: Candyce, Stay-At-Home Mom

Her offbeat partner: Lane, Electrician

Date and location of wedding: Mayfield Park, Austin, TX — March 19, 2011

Our offbeat wedding at a glance: We had a mad tea party theme. Lane and I both wore top hats, and my grandfather built the sign pointing all different directions from my mother's old fence. There was stacked china on the long dining tables serving hors d'oeuvres and giant china with potted plants on the guestbook table. There was tea (of course!), the officiants read from a vintage copy of "Alice in Wonderland," and the ring box had a key on it.

Out in the Maine woods, and just a little bit lost, this wedding came together with the spiffiest wedding party this side of Serenity. A little bit steampunk, a little bit Firefly-inspired, and a whole lot of geek-tastic love made this party a woodsy, DIY, and inked-up awesome-fest.

After a wedding (or two) under their belt, it was time to make this one their own: Vikings, a fiery red dress, belly dancing performers (who dragged everyone up to dance!), and a processional song written by the groom. Join us (and Geoff Peterson) in reading about this backyard shindig.

This wedding takes its direction from a desire to leave a small carbon footprint and to locally-source as much as possible. Having it in the state's first Platinum LEED-certified building was definitely apropos. The homemade hula hoops, butternut squash soup, and folk music were icing on this Star Trek-topped cake.

Take two men in love, a weekend long party full of dancing, pies, and even Jazzercize, and you get the wedding of Chad and Matt. And any couple who provides parasols, ribbon streamers, and cardboard cutouts for their "gigantic gay discotheque" is aces in my book.

These are a few of this couple's favorite things: horror movies, art deco decor, vintage fashion, their puppies, raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens… oh wait, scratch the last two. But take the rest of them and smoosh them together for a rad rooftop shindig with lots of DIY. They also dressed their gender-blind wedding party in retro gear making for some killer photos. And don't get too jealous that they had a second reception in Hawaii!

Hometown wedding got you down? Maybe this couple will inspire you to get away from it all and hire a Celtic monk to officiate your handfasting in Ireland! Lovely cloudy skies, wildflowers, Inis Mor cliffs, and even a visiting horse make this elopement something we all wish we could do. Right now.

With a budget the size of one month's rent, this thrifty couple capitalized on the talents of friends and family to create an intimate and musical wedding with vegan flair. Their outdoor ceremony may have been rained out, but the indoor alternative amplified the music and they preferred it in the end. Crisis averted.