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Remember that photo I shared with you of the couple surrounded by swords post-wedding ceremony? Or the photo of a bride with a fuzzy creature on her shoulder? Well, that daring couple was Annie & Johnny! Here's the rest of their Wild Animal Park/fencing wedding story. -Coco

Photography by Amber Gregory Photography

The offbeat bride: Annie, Research Chemist (and OBT Member)

Her offbeat partner: Johnny, Tutor

Location & date of wedding: San Diego Wild Animal Park — March 13th, 2010

What made our wedding offbeat: For starters, our guests were distracted during the ceremony because the lemurs behind us were chasing each other. Our ceremony was held at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It's absolutely gorgeous and since the ceremony was at sunset, all of the animals were waking up, running around and being loud, which made everything even better.

Jenny & Evan loved the wedding crane tradition. The tradition is for the bride or couple or guests to fold 1000 paper cranes–if accomplished, they are able to wish for a thousand years of happiness together. So Jenny & Evan did just that, and then they used the cranes as decorations during their wedding!

Nina & Sean had always dreamt about having a lakeside wedding in Michigan. However, one morning Nina woke up and asked Sean to marry her at a courthouse in Georgia instead. It was kind of a big deal because Nina is not the spontaneous type!

Heidi & Scott love DIY projects, so why should their wedding be any different? They did just about everything themselves, which resulted in a wonderful, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

Sheryl & Eric are ready to embark on the adventure of creating a life together. They commemorated their union by having an intimate and casual destination wedding on a beautiful beach in Costa Rica.

Attention Seattle ladies! I'm cosponsoring a hot hair give-away with my beloved hair salon, VAIN. Yes, I'm a total whore for them: they've been doing my hair since 2001 when I cut...

Why is it that rockabilly brides always have the most fabulous wedding hair? I'm totally in love with the 1940s 'do that Laurenn and her fabulous smile are rocking in this shot...