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What what?! It's another puppet wedding! We heart these puppet-officiated, puppet-attended, puppet fantastic weddings!

The offbeat bride: Zoe, Artist

Her offbeat partner: Zach, Art Professor

Date and location of wedding: F.W. Kent Park, Oxford, IA — May 28, 2011

What made our wedding offbeat: Zach and I were married by a puppet! We created a puppet show to the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear (a childhood favorite of mine). The project was a collaboration with several of our artist friends. We made the stage, scenery, props, and puppets. Instead of bridesmaids and groomsmen, we had narrators and puppeteers.

So I had the esteemed honor (and OMG sweet freaking luck) of shooting the very first wedding ever held at the Jim Henson Co. lot in Los Angeles. Here are some of my favorite shots of Luke and Suzanne's Muppet wedding, well, from the photos I've edited so far!

Ancient nations' wedding traditions + wiccan rituals + xaman beliefs + retro cabaret style = THIS.

It's been a long time since I featured wedding puppetry (remember this wedding with the male flower girl? Still one of my all-time favorites!), so I couldn't resist this video,...

If you or your beloved is a performer by trade, how much of the wedding is a "performance"?

An entire photo set of Dana the flower girl, courtesy of Gwyneth Collen Photography.

Dana, the male flower girl from Bobby & Clare's puppet wedding, shares his secrets about his journey to flower-girlhood, and how he felt about his gender-bending responsibilities.