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Photos by StoryPhotographers: Ashley Stephenson and David Teeter

The offbeat bride: Meg, Special Education Teacher

Her offbeat partner: Zach, Youth Pastor

Date and location of wedding: Rock Hill, South Carolina, Ebenezer ARP Church — March 19, 2011

What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding is definitely what I consider to be "offbeat lite." At first glance it would seem like your average, Southern church wedding. All of the usual suspects were there: the big white dress, lots of attendants, flower girl, ring bearer, father giving the bride away, etc.

But we did our best to look at all the traditions and only commit to the ones that we felt were true to who we are, what we believe, and what we wanted people to remember. For us, that meant picking and choosing between a lot of traditional aspects and balancing our slightly offbeat nature without doing things just for the sake of being "different."

A teary sunset ceremony on a boat, a romantic rooftop reception, and a lot of DIY touches brought out the fun for this Florida couple. Who says your wedding can't be enchanting AND entertaining?

A silent film star, an elegant vampire, and a raven winged officiant = perfect Halloween wedding. You know it's good when the officiant has to say "You may now STOP kissing the bride."

Y'all got to hear about how Kacey's wedding was rescued from an ice storm, but now you got to see how the wedding-photos-that-almost-weren't came out! Not to mention, a beautiful explanation of how planning a wedding is a lot like being in the military.

Claire is like a punk rock fairy godmother and Glyn is like the most awesome man behind the curtain ever. Toto, I don't think we're in Kanas anymore …