The Offbeat Bride Arroxane, Technical writer (and OBT member)

Her Offbeat Partner: Mike, Techie, inventor, and business owner

Location & date of wedding: The Max recording stage in Dallas, TX — January 18, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: From the theme to the attire to the food to the entertainment, it was about what we liked and wanted. OK, there was some "make the folks happy" and crowd-pleaser elements, but 90% of the wedding was creative expression of our love(s).

Continue reading "Arroxane & Mike's celestial, multi-cultural ceremony of matrimony" →

The Offbeat Bride: Bailey, Grad Student, Theatrical Design and Technology Specializing in Costume Design (and OBT member)

Her Offbeat Partner: Chris, Grad Student, Theatrical Design and Technology Specializing in Lighting Design

Location & date of wedding: Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theatre, Stephenville, TX. Our undergrad theatre where we met! — December 20th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: First and foremost we had our wedding in the theatre in which we met at college. We were both theatre majors. We got married on the stage where we first met! We didn't want "theatre" to be our theme, but the place was very important to us.

Continue reading "Bailey & Chris Sewing-themed, Texas theater wedding" →

The offbeat bride: De Anne, Artist and Data Analyst (and OBT member "Deanderthal")

Her offbeat partner: Warren, Video Game Tech Support

Location & date of wedding: Grandma's house, Mt. Bonnell, Austin Texas — 9/18/2009

What made our wedding offbeat: We decided that good food, photography and celebrating with our loved ones were more important that any tradition. So we had a big party that at which we just happened to get married.

There was no aisle, no ceremony seating, friends rang a gong to signal that Things Were Happening for five minutes, then it was back to the par-tay.

Continue reading "De Anne & Warren's "The Hitchening: The Party with a Wedding Inside!"" →

Hey, remember that bit 'o chartreuse wedding porn we teased you with a couple weeks ago? Good! Because Texas photographer Brandi Thompson was kind enough to share some more with us!…

Sarah and Celso got married at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. And Sarah rocked one of the coolest damn dresses I've ever seen. Plus she pulled it together with streaks of that vibrant green in her sexy short hair. And I'm sorry but, sexy doesn't even come close to describing this bride. Just check out this steamy photo…

Continue reading "Behold the chartreuse Dallas wedding" →

Texas wedding photographer Brandi Thompson (who y'all have seen on OBB before) just posted a couple sneak peek photos from Sarah & Celso's recent wedding:

Photo courtesy of Brandi Thompson Photography

That chartreuse wedding dress! Wow. Brandi said she'd share additional photos with Offbeat Bride when she's done with post-processing — but in the meantime, go check out the sneak peek she's got on her blog!