The best offbeat bridal inspiration comes from other offbeat brides! Here’s a growing collection of the many thousands of amazing, independent women who have planned offbeat weddings. Some of these women were quoted in Offbeat Bride. Want to submit your wedding for consideration? Fill out the survey at offbeatbridal.com.
 The offbeat bride: Chelsie, Wildlife Biologist
Her offbeat partner: Francesco, Aerospace Engineer
Location & date of wedding: Dancing Horse Ranch in Paso Robles, Ca.
08 August 2008
What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding theme was Steampunk (with a subtheme of Make New Friends!), our friend Kat officiated our wedding and we wrote our own ceremony. Also all of our “vendors” were friends! My make-up artist, the photographers, the DJ, the caterers — we all knew them and it seemed like there were no strangers at our wedding. It was wonderful to see everyone bringing their skills together to help out and contribute. Our wedding was much more about having fun than having rituals. I think that everyone there had a great time!
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 The offbeat bride: Gem - art lecturer (and OBT member!)
Her offbeat partner: Mel - sex boutique proprietor
Location & date of wedding: Brighton Town Hall/beach/pier, Brighton UK. Wednesday the 6th of August 2008.
What made our wedding offbeat: Being a gay couple started events in a generally non-regular tradition and our family and friends realized quickly that it wasn’t going to stop there … we wanted a day that would fulfill our dressing up fantasies, even if that meant just being really comfortable. We didn’t want anyone in starchy suits if they weren’t going to feel at ease and our wedding was primarily about enjoyment.
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 The offbeat bride: Maddie - Graphic Designer
Her offbeat partner: Tim - Hydrogeologist
Location & date of wedding: Wedding: New Farm Park, Brisbane, Australia Reception: New Farm Lawn Bowls Club (across the road). 8th October 2005
What made our wedding offbeat: My husband and I dreamed up every aspect of the day so that when we remember back, it may not have been everyone’s idea of perfect but it was everything we could have ever wanted it to be. With very little cash and a whole lot of skilled friends pitching in their skills, this green coloured wedding and accompanying reception ‘on the green’ was a whole lot of fun!
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Haley & Joe are totally Burners, and since half my friends are at Burning Man this week, I figured it was the perfect time to feature this fabulously PORANGE wedding!
 The offbeat bride: Haley, Nanny
Her offbeat partner: Joe, Engineer
Location & date of wedding: Joaquin Miller Park Cascade, Oakland, CA. June 29, 2008
What made our wedding offbeat: My favorite color is pink, he likes orange. I like cats, he likes rabbits. So instead of having a wedding where I picked everything and he said, “Yes Dear” this wedding was all about our “Us-ness”. Pink and orange make Porange, and Porange suits us.
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 The offbeat bride: Sarah, writer
Her offbeat partner: Jenn, typist
Location & date of wedding: Our meadow, Basom, NY. September 29, 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted our wedding to be a reflection of our deepest spirits - and said spirits just happen to have wings ;D
My wife is very much a Winter person, and I’m very much an Autumn person - so we came up with a vision of how we’d pull it off. Our dresses were sewn by my wife’s mother, and we ordered wings that would reflect the seasons. We couldn’t imagine a more magical place than our own meadow/backyard to get married in, so we dressed it up as a Faerie meadow - ribbons, flower petals and branches with autumn leaves were everywhere.
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 The offbeat bride: Claire, Operations Manager at a non-profit
Her offbeat partner: Bobby, Comedian, Puppeteer and Giant
Location & date of wedding: Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA. July 12, 2008
What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was subversively quirky. We both went back and forth about certain traditions and our families had some say in that. I was in a big pouffy white dress with a veil for the ceremony and the boys were in tuxes.
But! Our attitudes were not traditional, which made the whole day wonderful. I didn’t care about being a bridey-bride and just wanted everyone to have a blast. We chose to focus on the quirky funny details and on us starting a new partnership together.
 To start, we had a 29 year old male flower girl. My wedding party walked down the aisle to Raider’s of the Lost Ark and we walked out to the Ghostbuster’s theme song.
My husband is a puppeteer and made each wedding party member a puppet to match them as our gifts to them. The wedding party entered the reception with their puppets, and our flower girl even slow danced with his at one point.
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 The offbeat bride: Laura, history detective
Her offbeat partner: Jim, army captain
Location & date of wedding: Gazebo in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lovingston, Virginia. July 26, 2008
What made our wedding offbeat: When Jim and I made the decision to get married this May, we knew we weren’t going to have the luxury of a long engagement; Jim had recently received orders for a 400-day mission overseas and we knew we would have to have everything done and in order before he had to report for training in mid-August.
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 The offbeat bride: Rosemary, graduate student
Her offbeat partner: Christopher, graduate student
Location & date of wedding: June 21, 2008 in a friend’s wild back yard and forest, near Montreal, QC
What made our wedding offbeat: We made up our own ceremony to be exactly what we wanted it to be, which meant throwing out most traditional elements. Being part of a Pagan community, this wasn’t so surprising to our friends, but what may have surprised them was that we threw out most of the Pagan handfasting traditions as well, since they didn’t really speak to us either.
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