photo by Drew Orrin-Brown

The offbeat bride: Tessa LeTaunt, Pin Up Model & Mommy

Her offbeat partner: Ronnie, Stay-at-home-Daddy

Location & date of wedding: The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, MO — July 11th, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: Instead of having a unity candle, we had a Native American water ritual, which consisted of both my groom and I drinking from a double-spouted jug made of clay. Although this took away from our overall theme, both of our families have strong Indian heritage, which we felt the need to embrace during our uniting as one.

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The Offbeat Bride: Khaki, photographer

Her Offbeat Partner: Carl, Musician

Location & date of wedding: The Inn at Middleton Place (plantation), Charleston, SC — 4/18/09

What made our wedding offbeat: We got married on a plantantion in Charleston, SC (The Inn at Middleton Place) on April 18, 2009… sounds traditional, I know. But, I wore a black wedding dress and the bridal party wore pin-up style pink dresses by Stop Staring.

Being a photographer, and my husband a musician, we knew we wanted to do things our own way and didn't want to follow all the traditional wedding customs. I don't think anyone was really shocked. It was a smaller wedding (80 people) and everyone knows us so well, and knew better than to expect something very traditional.

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The offbeat bride: Chrissy, Jewelry Designer

Her offbeat partner: Andre, Special Effects Tech

Location & date of wedding: Eglinton Grand in Toronto Ontario on May 1st 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: The day started by us gals getting ready… the bridal party looked so amazing in their 40's outfits & hair, pin up girl makeup feathery fascinators… the boys looked just as good in their outfits too!

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You will know immediately if this is the sort of thing that interests you. Are you planning a retro-tinged wedding? Are you in Texas? Do you tend toward a little bit rockabilly and a little bit vintage?

…Then the idea of pin-up wedding portraits from Austin wedding photographer Anna Zatopek is sooooo up your alley.

Anna Zatopek is a wedding, portrait, pin-up and boudoir photographer in Austin, TX who specializes in doing Bridal Pin-Up sessions instead of the traditional bridal portrait sessions.

"The sessions are tastefully done to mimic the style of the vintage pin-up girl," Anna explained to me. "We provide props, accessories, gorgeous backgrounds and period hair and make up by the fabulous Cameo of Cameo's Atomic Hair Salon."

To get more details about pricing and what's included (and see lots of examples!) keep reading…

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The offbeat bride: Brigitte, Sales & Customer Service

Her offbeat partner: Cory, House Painter

Location & date of wedding: Dad's backyard in Derry, New Hampshire on August 23rd, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: Cory and I were married in a short ceremony at my Dad's home. Luckily for me he happens to have a golf course in his back yard. We had a tented reception with the typical wedding set up, but since we were not tied to a specific venues preferred vendors we had total freedom to pick and choose.

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