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While many ketubah* designs can be heavy on the outdated floral elements, JKraftArt.com offers colorful works of art based on nature, architecture and spiritual symbols. JKraftArt.com features ketubot with original designs custom-tailored to your taste, using your images, photos, favorite artists and styles. Check out the gallery.

I especially appreciate that the artist, Jessica Kraft, notes that prices are negotiable depending on the couple’s budget. She also does ketubah designs for same-sex couples, which I only recently realized is sorta rare.

*Quick cultural lesson for the gentiles in the house: a ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract.

Some of you may remember my last post about Lara Swanson wedding photography in Washington, DC. Well, she’s baaaaack, and this time they’ve got some amazing photos from a recent wedding in DC, with a bad ass couple named Sarah & Michael.

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Some of you are already familiar with the work of Seattle wedding photographer Jenny Jiménez — she shot the infamous Pixel wedding. But oh, she’s done so much more than that, including placing in the PDN Top Knots wedding photography contest.

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Who wants to look like a froofy princess on their wedding day? Seattle wedding photographer Winifred Westergard seems to really get it that not all of us do. Her gallery of wedding photos is filled with refreshingly honest portraits — including this one here, and an awesome shot of a groom who appears to be wearing a pair of delicate white wings — but isn’t. Seattle brides, if you’re on the hunt for your wedding photographer, definitely take a look at Westergard Photo and see what you think.

Vintage dress patterns —

Attention crafty brides! Sew yourself a new/retro wedding dress using Patterns from the Past’s vintage dress patterns.

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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Dearly beloveds, we are gathered here today to poke under the hood of Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November.

Alright, so let’s review, shall we? Nearlyweds! is a wedsite service provider with cool features like guest maps, non-barfy templates, and the option to order invites that match your website.

This week we’re going to talk about the wedsite feature that pleases four different kinds of offbeat brides: geeky, green, budget, AND lazy dwarves. Er, brides. That wedsite feature would be online RSVP, of course.

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Let’s steal a bottle of champagne from the buffet table and sneak out back with Nearlyweds!, offbeatbride.com’s sponsor for the month of November!

Y’all are familiar with my loathing of traditional wedding website aesthetics, which usually seem to include lots of doves and bells and pink and BLEAH. I may have pink hair, but I am not into pinky-pink over-femmey wedsites.