The offbeat bride: Cassie, Future Librarian

Her offbeat partner: Hugh, Future Philosopher

Location & date of wedding: The Clarke Estate in Santa Fe Springs, CA on July 20th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat:Our philosophy was to throw a really great party where we just happened to get married. We also had a super tight budget, but staying true to ourselves and working with a tight budget magically went hand in hand.

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Remember Raina, the autumn bride who wore her mom's dress? Here's the full scoop on her library wedding!

The offbeat bride: Raina, Graphic Designer

Her offbeat groom: Mike / freelance photographer & TV production guy

Location & date of wedding: The Clayville town library in Clayville, NY

What made our wedding offbeat: We really wanted to save a lot of money and keep it simple, simple, SIMPLE! We only had 7 people at the ceremony besides the two of us.

We did it at the tiny library in the town I grew up in. It was perfect because it was so small on the inside, and it happed to be a church at one point which lent itself to the layout of the ceremony well. We didn't have a religious ceremony but it was kind of cute to be in an old church turned library (and my job involves designing book jackets, so it was extra special!).

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Here's a gorgeous shot of Raina to inspire all of you autumn brides.

I extra-love this photo because Raina is wearing her Mom's wedding dress. Lemme tell you, offbeat brides rock the vintage like no othas.

The whole set's a dream, really … including this awesome "you may now kiss the bride" photo. Hopefully I'll have more info about this wedding soon! All I can tell you for now is that they got married in a library in upstate NY.

(Thanks to mike.turz for the photo!)