Well, it's Friday. That means it must be time for me to have my regularly scheduled freak out over wedding shoes.

This week I'll be pawing over wedges, which I figure are extra appropriate for those of you planning a destination wedding, beach wedding, or casual summer thang.

As always I aimed for a range of colors (white wedges! red wedges! blue wedges!) and costs (from forty bucks affordable to zomg those shoes cost as much as my entire wedding budget).

Yet again I went maybe a little overboard with my selections. Gird your shoe loins, ladies. We're going in…

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For our second wedding on Offbeat Bride's "geek week" we bring you Amanda and Matt's astronomy inspired wedding, featuring a Doctor Who cake and astronomy-based decor and favors. -Megan

The offbeat bride: Amanda, ceramic artist (and OBT member)

Her offbeat partner: Matt, Aerospace Engineering grad student

Location & date of wedding: Rose Garden at Iowa State — 6 June 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We did maybe ten traditional things, and even those were offbeat. We had gotten married the day before at the courthouse, so it was really just a time to celebrate together with good food, great atmosphere, and great friends and family.

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In my last shoe post, Alicia left a comment about the shoes she was getting from ModCloth, and I just about keeled over. These shoes to the left? They are called UNICORN PRINCESS HEELS, and that may be the best name of a shoe ever.

Once I saw those, I started clicking around ModCloth's other shoes and gurgle. There went two hours of my life. They have a looooot of awesome shoes. So many that I decided this week I would take a break from my thematic approach and just drool over this one catalog.

If you're ready for this week's batch of wedding shoe inspirashons, grab your tea and let's dive in together, yes?

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The offbeat bride: Nadine, Tracer

Her offbeat partner: Alex, Industrial Mechanic

Location & date of wedding: Germany, Black forrest, Rottweil, City Hall of Rottweil — 11.12.2009 & 12.12.2009

What made our wedding offbeat: The first thing is that we are offbeat ourselves. We are heavily tattooed on the complete body. When Alex asked me to become his wife we planned to get married five month later. As we both have no money on our site, we decided to create a low-budget wedding. The complete wedding with 150 guests costs under 4000 €.

Our wedding was complete done by us. Every single detail was planned and tinkered by me. I looked for bargains every day, bought many things used, and spent all my time for every detail for this wedding.

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Oh peep-toe wedding shoes, you little vixens. There's something instantly retro glamor about the peep-toe, especially if you toss in a platform in the front. And maybe a little bow.

That little hint of toe cleavage adds some uber-saucy to a wedding day outfit, and as usual I'm a huge fan of brightly colored shoes even if (or ESPECIALLY if) you're wearing a white dress. I love shoes along the full spectrum of colors … so won't you join me while I get all OMG SHOETH and drool over a rainbow of peep-toe flavors?

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