Win the Judgey Olympics: transform your petty wedding snarks into personal growth
JUDGEY-NESS. We all do it, and it’s fine — but every time you get all judgey about someone else, you’re missing a chance to learn something valuable about yourself.
Walking on egg-shells: the challenges of serving many communities
Offbeat Bride caters to a LOT of different non-traditional niches, and that’s where the challenge comes in: everyone wants us to cater to their niche, and when we don’t, sometimes y’all get upset.
On being an offbeat consumer
I don’t see consumer as a bad word. You just have to be clear on your consumer values, and stick to them.
Let’s talk about labels and self-identifying
Over the last couple months we’ve gotten comments from well-intentioned readers concerned about how we title and label the Real Offbeat Weddings on Offbeat Bride…
Fear mongering & you’ll seeeee
During wedding planning, we tell each other a lot of scary stories, which all too often become fear mongering. It’s sort of a pre-emptive commiseration — an anticipatory sing-song of Oh, you’ll seeeee….
Why you’re not supposed to like everything you see on Offbeat Bride
Part of why I continue to run Offbeat Bride is because it’s an excuse to get exposed to a whole big wide range of cultures and styles and people and design outside my daily experience.