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Avalon & Daniel’s gothic faerie wedding

Avalon (her awesome faux-hawk) & Daniel got weddinged at a mansion. They had a gothic faerie, victorian theme and were married by the powers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Terri & Sebastian’s spontaneous, intimate European elopement

Terri and Sebastian ditched all the traditional wedding accoutrements for their Spain elopement, and instead treated the day like a fabulous photo shoot. Wait till you see the photos!

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Alison & Matt’s Icelandic wedding & Philadelphia library reception

Instead of a cake cutting, we had gingerbread versions of ourselves and bit off each other’s heads.

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Diane & Taren’s Pagan/ADF, Druid, fall-fest wedding

Parts of our wedding included blessing our guests with land, sea and sky, three rune readers who read relevant runes while holding our rings to infuse blessings, a prayer to the Earth Mother, and the reading of a poem. Our dog even had a part!

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Carla & Zeb’s handmade everything, drumming dance party wedding

The wedding was a traditional Byzantine wedding which is somewhat offbeat even though its orthodox. Byzantine wedding in western PA; we warned people it would be just like the wedding in the move The Deerhunter.

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Shel & Mike’s Black & White Halloween Wedding

In keeping with the season, it’s time for our weekly Offbeat Halloween wedding! The Offbeat Bride: Shel, Coordinator Her Offbeat Partner: Mike, Fire Arms Instructor Location & date of wedding: Holiday Inn Select, Trevose, PA — October 31, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We tried to make the day about the two of us, […]