This is sort of an Offbeat Bride family wedding. Not only is it the wedding of longtime OBT member Ragani — but it was the first wedding that Managing Editor Megan ever photographed. Kudos to Ragani & Will for taking a chance on an a newbie wedding photographer.

 

The offbeat bride: Ragani, Art Director & Henna Artist

Her offbeat partner: Will, Paralegal & Performing Artist

Location & date of wedding: California Ballroom, Oakland, CA — May 2, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: Having a traditional wedding was never really an option. We wanted it to be a reflection us and celebrate our eclectic community, so following "tradition" was not the best way to achieve that. Once we decided on having the wedding in a theater-like setting, the rest spun off that.

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Remember the wedding style-induced fashion-gasm I had last week? Well get ready for more of it, because Janleen's been kind enough to give us the whole scoop!

The offbeat bride: Jaleen, Designer/Project Manager/Flying Trapeze Instructor

Her offbeat partner: Andrew, Designer/DJ/Juggler

Location & date of wedding: Supperclub, San Francisco CA — September 5, 2009

What made our wedding offbeat: My dad's friend asked him if he was walking me down the aisle, and he replied, "I don't even know if there's going to be an aisle!" So much of this was our version of wedding: reimagined.

Supperclub is this strange white-box dinner theatre/nightclub venue where everyone sits on beds along the room's perimeter. Our party started at 8:45 pm with a cocktail hour in the front all-red room, which we attended in party clothes, and then stole away to change into wedding attire.

Continue reading "Jaleen & Andrew's Surreal Love Circus Party-time Wedding" →

The Offbeat Bride: Erin, Admin Assistant

Her Offbeat Partner: Tim, Theater student

Location & Date of wedding: First UU Church, Indiana, PA — August 2nd 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We built our ceremony from the ground up. Tim wrote our vows, we chose readings that reflected us and our families. Likewise we did everything we could to keep it low cost and free of the faux-formality of a lot of weddings today.

That being said, both Tim and I love to dress up so we just had to go all out, Tim and his groomsmen (and groomswoman) in top hats and tuxedos with canes, myself in the most ridiculously poofy dress I could find. It was spontaneous, carefree, playful and at every moment completely and totally us.

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The bride runs the Hello Kitty Museum in Germany, so of course she has her 2007 wedding at the Hello Kitty Puroland in Tokyo. (Side note: You must watch this vid of the bride getting a Hello Kitty tattoo.)

With theme weddings, both spouses need to be fully bought in — like the Star Wars wedding. The last thing you want is for your spouse to look like some sort of thematic afterthought. But the Hello Kitty groom is so obviously fully on-board with the wonderful silliness of this wedding, rocking his ruffled blue tux and oversized shades! It's all just adorable.

Thanks to Jennifer for sending me this. Oh and there's a little video of the wedding, too…

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The offbeat bride: Sarah Creagh Horth, writer

Her offbeat partner: Roland Horth, Mechanical Engineer

Location & date of wedding: Marine Parade of Napier, New Zealand on December 16th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We didn't tell anyone and ran away to another town to get married. We love our families but as they live in different countries and due to timing constraints, we just decided to get on with it.

Continue reading "Sarah & Roland's Art Deco Elopement Wedding" →