The Offbeat Bride: Sarah, Social Worker and student

Her Offbeat Partner: Paul, Web Developer at Minnesota Public Radio

Location & date of wedding: Minnehaha Falls Park and our back yard in south Minneapolis, MN — September 20, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was offbeat for several reasons. First, we had a short engagement (four months) and we stuck to a very reasonable budget. Second, we kept everything really simple, we had a small wedding party of my sister and Paul's best friend.

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The Offbeat Bride: Tracy, Editor (and OBT member "Tracy")

Her Offbeat Partner: Aaron, Building Engineer

Location & date of wedding: Peace Valley Park in New Britain Township, PA. — October 25, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We had a self-uniting ceremony, which means we had no officiant. We kept our vows pretty traditional, but we led ourselves through them.

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These two lovelies were recently wed at Ridley Creek State Park in Pennsylvania. Love Me Do Photography captured the day and I have nothing to say but le sigh…

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The Offbeat Bride: Laura, scientist (and OBT member "2girls4PDX")

Her Offbeat Partner: Gosia, attorney

Location & date of wedding: Shakespeare Garden, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Portland, Oregon — 06.20.09

What made our wedding offbeat: Well, first we’re girlie-dress & makeup-loving gay ladies. We couldn’t agree who had to change her last name, so we played a Name Change Soccer Game the afternoon before the wedding with our guests, and the winner’s team got to pick our new last name. In a total upset, Laura (who is completely unathletic) and her team won, and she scored the winning goal. It served as a great icebreaker for everyone to get to know one another.

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The Offbeat Bride: Jennifer – Journalist

Her Offbeat Partner: Adam – Bike mechanic

Location & date of wedding: Coledale School and Surfclub, NSW Australia — February 28, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We rode together on our brompton folding bikes to our wedding.

I had to put a big knot in my wedding dress, that my aunt had passed down to me, so it wouldn't catch in the spokes.

We rode past a bunch of teenagers who yelled "Don't do it" but we just smiled and did it anyway!

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