Everafter Images recently shot Patrick and Kelly’s wonderful eclectic downtown Austin wedding at the Austin Symphony amphitheater. As this shot shows, they definitely tapped into the bride’s sass. Everafter Images’s Raymond Malkiewicz explains, “It was a casual and comfortable wedding – with humor provided by the officiant who started the ceremony with the marriage voice inflection from the movie A Princess Bride. His ‘maiwidge’ generated laughter from guests and wedding party alike.” You can see more wedding porn from this Austin wedding over here.

Everafter Images definitely caters to all sorts of nontraditional brides, with their wedding photography blog currently featuring Renaissance themed Renewal of Vows and a heavily pierced/inked semi-traditional-but-not Jewish wedding.

And these Austin wedding photographers are looking for offbeat brides to photograph — and to prove it, they’re offering a 10% discount to all offbeatbride.com readers! You can get in touch with Raymond and Debra via the Everafter Images website, or call them directly at 512-989-6952. Just mention you found them on offbeatbride.com to get the discount.

New Jersey celebrant Jessie Blum specializes in crafting wedding ceremonies for nontraditional couples who want something spectacular. She says, “The central theme is always the couple’s original love story, and personalized touches are imbued through the entire ceremony. I aim to make the ceremony that you would create for yourself.”

Jessie is a certified Celebrant, an ordained non-denominational minister, and authorized to perform weddings & civil unions in New Jersey. Take a look at her gallery and testimonials from couples — you’ll see that she definitely gets nontrad needs!

Eclectic Unions honors all backgrounds and traditions, and Jessie is even offering a promotion with 10% off for clients who mention they found her on offbeatbride.com!

Whitney Lee is a wedding photographer (and artist who does kitschy latch-hook rugs) in Austin, TX who is on the hunt for offbeat clients. She explains, “I love the non-traditional and the traditional-with-a-purpose. My favorite is to work with self-confident couples who view the wedding experience as an expression of themselves and their relationship.”

Whitney’s got a fabulous photo blog (I think this post is my favorite!) and is so committed to wooing offbeat couples that she’s offering a 10% discount to new clients who mention they found her on offbeatbride.com. Get in touch with Whitney Lee to make the magic happen!

If you’re looking for that perfect magical wedding headpiece, check out the feather fascinators and other awesome options from Breeziway.

They have 50 designs in whites and all colors, and since most feathers can be dyed, the headpieces can be made to compliment whatever offbeat shade of red, purple or blue your gown might be. And naturally, Breeziway does peacock fascinators — cuz they know the offbeat brides love their peacock feathers!

More gorgeous options and info about how to take advantage of a 50% discount for offbeatbride.com readers below…

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If you’re in Philly and looking for a wedding photographer, you definitely DEFINITELY need to check out Allebach Photography.

It’s obvious that Mike & Rachel Allebach so totally get offbeat brides — they just posted the most amazing series of tattooed bride photos on their blog dedicated to philadelphia wedding photography.

Seriously, you gotta see these shots…

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Designer Erin Blankley offers wonderfully weird custom wedding invitations as part of her burgeoning design firm, Corndog Industries. Erin’s past custom work is full of inspiring designs like Ouija Board-influenced invites you see here, plus even wilder stuff like coffin-themed and Van Halen rocker invitations. She’s got gentler designs too, of course.

Corndog Industries offers three tiers of pricing options, and is offering a special promotion to offbeat brides with free guest addressed envelope printing with Price Packages A or B. That’s 100-200 smackers off, easy! Just mention Offbeat Bride when you get in touch to take advantage of the discount.

Offbeat discount:
Mention you saw JKraftArt.com on Offbeat Bride and get a 10% discount!

While many ketubah* designs can be heavy on the outdated floral elements, JKraftArt.com offers colorful works of art based on nature, architecture and spiritual symbols. JKraftArt.com features ketubot with original designs custom-tailored to your taste, using your images, photos, favorite artists and styles. Check out the gallery.

I especially appreciate that the artist, Jessica Kraft, notes that prices are negotiable depending on the couple’s budget. She also does ketubah designs for same-sex couples, which I only recently realized is sorta rare.

*Quick cultural lesson for the gentiles in the house: a ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract.

Aww, who’s that adorable little tot wobbling down the aisle with a basket of rose petals? Why, it’s Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November! Join me as I get elbow deep in the Wed 2.0 geekery of the Nearlyweds! wedding websites.

Ok, let’s start with the basics: Nearlyweds! is the wedsite service for those of you want great wedding website designs, total control over your website content, absolutely no ads anywhere, and lots of slick features like interactive maps, blogging with comments, etc. Dude, your guests can add their own wedding porn, even! Let’s just call it Wed 2.0 and get the pun out of the way.

Nearlyweds! is fellow Seattle-based wedding biz, and you know how you can tell?

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