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: 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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 The offbeat bride: Sarah / vintage clothier
Her offbeat partner: Todd / Graphic designer
Location & date of wedding: Clinton House Museum in Fayetteville, Arkansas. August 11, 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: We got married in a little old house by the University of Arkansas campus, where Bill & Hillary Clinton actually got married. Turns out, we were the first couple to get married there since them!
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 The offbeat bride: Kate, admin lackey (midwife-wanna-be)
Her offbeat partner: Matt, wind turbine tech
Location & date of wedding: My parents’ backyard in Wadsworth, Ohio. May 10, 2008.
What made our wedding offbeat: Well, first of all, we were already married! We met in a chemistry class last fall, got engaged by Thanksgiving, and decided we wanted to be married in February. So we went down to the courthouse with our parents while still planning the small ceremony in May.
Matt & I wanted a ceremony and dinner that was small, non-formal, and personal. No big, cold, overly-glittery venue for us. We didn’t want to spend much money, and neither of us had much time to put into planning, since we both work and go to school. I have much more fun planning events like this, though, so I gladly took on most of that task.
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 The offbeat bride: Meagan, artist
Her offbeat partner: Nigel, logistics analyst
Location & date of wedding: The Plantation, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. May 10, 2008.
What made our wedding offbeat: The first thing offbeat about us is that we are a mixed couple in South Africa. Thankfully, this is slowly becoming more accepted here. We first chose a theme of “black and red/joker” using a deck of cards as our inspiration, then planned our wedding around that. I made everything thing that I could such as the invites, menus, table runners, even my veil and the vintage head-pieces for the bridesmaids.
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 The offbeat bride: Jessica, Photographer
Her offbeat partner: Matthew, Musician & Photographer
Location & date of wedding: Mashamoquet State Park, Pomfret CT. 10/7/2006
What made our wedding offbeat: We decided to get married after having seen each other in person only five times (over a year and a half) and burning through countless verizon cell-to-cell minutes. We had only two months to plan the wedding, and I (the bride) was living in California while the groom and the wedding was in Connecticut. I arrived in Connecticut four days before the wedding and thankfully had family and friends who handled all the preparations while Matthew and I generally freaked out.
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What was I just saying about bar weddings? Here’s another one!
 The offbeat bride: Baxter - writer (and OBT member!)
Her offbeat partner: Chris - Buyer at Amazon.com
Location & date of wedding: Discovery Park and Sunset Tavern - Seattle, WA (06-07-08) [Editor's note: Sunset Tavern, previously seen on OBB.com]
What made our wedding offbeat: Our ceremony was a short and sweet number is Discovery Park, overlooking the Sound with only family and a few friends in attendance. I wore a red corset top and a black skirt. He grew out his chops and wore a custom vest to go with his black pinstripe suit. A friend played “The Air That I Breathe” on acoustic guitar. Another friend officiated. We wrote our own vows which were basically love letters to each other, posed for some pictures and then it was on to the real party!
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 The offbeat bride: Laura (At the time an office manager and now an offbeat wedding planner!)
Her offbeat partner: Dave (Animation Production Coordinator)
Location & date of wedding: We were married at a gay karaoke bar called The Boulevard in Pasadena, on 07/07/07 — us and about 38,000 other people thought that was a good idea!
What made our wedding offbeat: We were a straight couple getting married in a gay karaoke bar with a musical theater themed ceremony. Not being much for tradition, when it came time to plan our wedding, we completely decontructed the entire process and put it back together again from scratch. We started by thinking “OK…if we were going to throw a big, fun party that *wasn’t* a wedding, where would we do that?” The answer: In a karaoke bar! (We’re theater people - need I say more?)
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