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We've spied this wedding in our "wedding parties gone wild" Monday Montage! It's no wonder since their whole crew looked fab.

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Photos by Amanda Hess

The offbeat bride: Rachael, Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology

Her offbeat partner: Chris, Barista

Date and location of wedding: Bar Divani, Grand Rapids, MI — November 5, 2011

Our offbeat wedding at a glance:
We both come from fairly traditional families, but we talked them through what was different about our wedding and how that really didn't change anything.

I decided to get a short, off-the-rack dress, and Chris didn't wear a tux, much to my family's dismay. The ladies of the wedding also wore dresses in different patterns. All the boys wore red Chucks and red ties (except the best man/officiant who wore a silver tie).

Yesterday marked five years since the day that I launched offbeatbride.com! I wrote a whole big looooong rambling post about it over on the Offbeat Empire business blog yesterday, but to celebrate here on Offbeat Bride, I thought I'd just do a round-up of some of my very favorite shots of Offbeat Brides and their books…

We all know I'm a sucker for photos of readers with their copies of Offbeat Bride — and this shot of Sara takes the cake!

Tribe member LucyTuppa explains how she was "saved by the book" as it were. Turns out, Ariel knows a thing or two about wedding planning… who woulda' guessed!? -Megs

It's been a while since I've featured a reader photo — all my photos feature my OLD book cover, but finally a reader took a shot with the new (and in my opinion, much lovelier) second edition.

Before leaving home and heading off to her wedding, Djinnaya made sure to grab her Offbeat Bride book for a very special ceremony at her reception.

The second edition of my book is officially OUT! It's been shipping from Amazon for a couple weeks, but I'm getting reports of it appearing on the shelves of bookstores now too,...

I love this shot of OBT member Emily and her husband Michael doing a little light reading at their wedding in September. Emily captioned this shot Offbeat Bride: Don't Get Married...