Getting weddinged, verb

1. The act of having a wedding after you’re already legally married.
2. See Jeannie & Aaron of gettingweddinged.com, who got married six years ago for the health insurance, but are now planning their fall 2008 wedding. Or rather, planning to get weddinged.

For more about getting weddinged, straight from Jeannie & Aaron’s FAQ, keep reading…

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Remember mywedding.com? They were the offbeat monthly sponsor last August, and they’ve got a couple new features that y’all should know about:

1. Wedding invitations that match your website!
This is a feature that’s really starting to take off on the web, and with good reason. It’s nice to do one-stop visual aesthetic shopping, and mywedding.com’s got a great selection of non-froof designs for both web and invites.

2. Social network wedding registry!
Mywedding.com partnered with a Seattle start-up called Wishpot, which allows you to create a wedding registry that goes across stores all across the web. You can add items from any online retailer — and yes, that includes Etsy! Then, your Wishpot registry displays automagically on your mywedding.com free wedsite. (Here’s more about how Wishpot works.)

Head on over to mywedding.com and get started today on your free wedding website — and get in on some matching invites and cross-store gift registry.

Hey, web geeks. Last year, I registered ourweddingfaq.com, to go with the joke in the book about wedsites. I never did anything with the URL, and now it’s about to expire and it makes me sad because it’s a rad URL for a geeky couple’s wedsite.

Do any of my offbeat webgeeks want it? I’m happy to give it away, provided you actually use it for your wedsite and maybe link back to offbeatbride.com. All that’s required is that you know what to do with a domain — ie, you need to already have web hosting, and know how to deal with your end of a domain transfer.

Anyone interested?

Are you ready to knock $500 off your wedding budget?

If you’ve been following along with me here for the last three weeks, you’ve heard all about Nearlyweds!, the snazzy new wedding website service that has rockin’ web templates that can come with matching paper invitations.

And now, Nearlyweds! and Carciolfi Design want to give you the most fab, non-froofy wedding website and invites EVAR. They’re giving away a free website and 50 coordinating diy paper invites from Carciofi — that’s a $500 value, my budget brides!

Entering is easy-peasy …

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Aww, who’s that adorable little tot wobbling down the aisle with a basket of rose petals? Why, it’s Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November! Join me as I get elbow deep in the Wed 2.0 geekery of the Nearlyweds! wedding websites.

Ok, let’s start with the basics: Nearlyweds! is the wedsite service for those of you want great wedding website designs, total control over your website content, absolutely no ads anywhere, and lots of slick features like interactive maps, blogging with comments, etc. Dude, your guests can add their own wedding porn, even! Let’s just call it Wed 2.0 and get the pun out of the way.

Nearlyweds! is fellow Seattle-based wedding biz, and you know how you can tell?

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