A magical Monday Montage with fairies, horses, and RAINBOWS
It was kind of a magical week for reader submissions. I encountered fairy wings, a fantasy destination sign, a horse-drawn carriage, and multiple rainbows. More rainbows is always better. Check out what else we found in the Offbeat Flickr Pool, the Offbeat Bride Tribe, and Pinterest this week.
Celebrate your beer-brewing love in your unity ceremony
SarahKat & Ryan brew their own beer, so adding this hobby into their ceremony was perfect. Here’s how they incorporated the process and ingredients into their ceremony.
Build a delicious marriage foundation with a unity sandwich
Unity candles, unity sand ceremonies, unity salt ceremonies, unity cocktails, and now the UNITY SANDWICH! Rachel and her groom decided that the ever-popular sammich was the ideal metaphor for their marriage.
Deyanna & Dustin’s Stormtrooper zombie homebrew wedding
We’ve got Stormtroopers, Vader, zombies, a green man, a cemetery cake, cemetery photos, an ’80s cover band, a unity zombie head, and just about a thousand other awesome details. If that isn’t enough to grab you, then you need some of their seven kegs of home-brewed beer, stat.
Mojo, mojitos, and a hair cutting ceremony: This might be the most DIY wedding you’ll ever see
Ariel and Samuel, the lovebirds of Bowerbird Photography had quite the amazing wedding at Mt. Tamalpais in Mill Valley, California. Everything was DIY with lots of help from family and friends. The day included a full-on pot luck dinner, musical numbers (with video!), a hair-cutting ceremony, and a ceremonial making of “mojo.” Enjoy this glimpse into a very cool wedding.
Hows about a little chemistry with your unity ceremony?
A 5th grade science activity can make a meaningful and exciting unity ceremony! See what happens when one couple decided to conduct a unity ceremony chemistry experiment live at their wedding.