Remember a year ago when Ariel introduced you to this adorable bike riding couple? Yeah, well a here's all details… a month after their first anniversary!

The Offbeat Bride: Jennifer, Theatre Manager (and OBT member "Jennifer")

Her Offbeat Partner: Kevin, Microsoft Solution Architect

Location & date of wedding: Wellington Barn, Wiltshire, UK — 19th July 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We found that following the traditional pattern for the day (ie. we got married, fed everyone, and then danced) seemed to work for us, but the details made it our own.

Continue reading "Jennifer & Kevin's Marriage Mayhem" →

The Offbeat Bride: Sara, Educational Consultant and Obsessive Blogger

Her Offbeat Partner: Matt, Director of Sharing for a network of charter schools

Location & date of wedding: Sunshine Mountain Lodge in the mountains of Colorado — July 19, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat:We started the wedding planning process by declaring a strict and modest budget: $2,000 to be exact. We wanted our wedding to be about sincerity, authenticity, connection, and a celebration and proclamation of love and commitment. We didn’t want it to be about monogrammed napkins and excessive amounts of fondant. In all honesty, we didn’t want to let our wedding overshadow our relationship (and we needed to save money for the house we planned to buy four days after our wedding).

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Dearly beloveds, we are gathered here today to poke under the hood of Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com's sponsor for the month of November.

Alright, so let's review, shall we? Nearlyweds! is a wedsite service provider with cool features like guest maps, non-barfy templates, and the option to order invites that match your website.

This week we're going to talk about the wedsite feature that pleases four different kinds of offbeat brides: geeky, green, budget, AND lazy dwarves. Er, brides. That wedsite feature would be online RSVP, of course.

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