The offbeat bride: Essie – high school teacher and postgrad psychology student (and OBT member Essie!)

Her offbeat partner: Sara-Jane – cinema geek, learning programs officer, and baker extraordinary.

Location & date of wedding: Glen Harrow historic gardens. Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. 18th April, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: Gay marriage isn’t recognized here, so we got to make this up for ourselves. We each told each other how much we love each other, signed our state’s relationship register, and asked our parents to offer words of support.

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How much do you love these letterpress invitations for a Seattle wedding coming up? Click the photo below to see all the details on realphotography.com.

After yesterday's post about cave weddings, I got so many emails asking for more information about Sabrina's cave wedding, that I figured I better post her profile right away!

The offbeat bride: Sabrina – Graphic Designer

Her offbeat partner: Paul – NASA Meteorologist/Computer Scientist

Location & date of wedding: Stephen's Gap Cave, Woodville, AL (basically in the boonies!) 5.1.08

What made our wedding offbeat: First off, I designed and we printed our own wedding invitations on my 1924 Chandler and Price letterpress (Paul did all the typesetting). We did all the decor ourselves: the decorations, the favors, the flowers, I designed the cake, etc.

Then our wedding was really a weekend's worth. May 1st (Thurs) Paul and I got married in a cave – Stephen's Gap Cave. Our entire wedding party hiked for 45 minutes with all of their fancy clothes (including a rented tux for Paul) slung over their backs and got changed in the cave. We had a fantastic ceremony, and then went out for pizza, and later went to the reception site to start decorating.

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The Etsy Wedding blog has done it again, sniffing out gorgeous custom letterpress invitations from Etsy seller Pistachio Press. Nope, they're not cheap. But man, they're inspiring.