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: Annalise, Makeup Artist
Her offbeat partner: Adam, Carpenter
Location & date of wedding: Minneapolis, MN, November 3, 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: People loved to remark that our wedding was “our big, fat, vintage, native-american, Dia de los Muertos wedding.”
 We got married in a Native American church, using the traditions such as smudging, a water ceremony, and a quilt ceremony with our elders, and my husband spent some time in the teepee with our elders before the ceremony.
We also managed to fit it in with our favorite holiday, Dia de los Muertos, and my love of all things vintage into it.
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 The offbeat bride: Bree, Hairdresser
Her offbeat groom: Damien
Location & date of wedding: Army Navy Country Club, Fairfax VA, October 6, 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted to be different and rock a roll — but still very elegant. I walked down the aisle to a Johnny Cash tune!
 Our biggest challenge: We really had very little difficulty — we planned well in advance and stayed in our budget. Being understanding, compromising and remembering that it’s supposed to be a fun and special time kept any disagreement and difficulty at bay.
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Wai-Ching’s wedding dresses are the stuff of legend here on offbeatbride.com — but what about Chrissy’s OWN wedding, exactly a year ago today?
 The offbeat bride: Chrissy Wai-Ching Fashion Designer/Fiber Artist
Her offbeat groom: Vasili Zolotov, Software Engineer
Location & date of wedding: The Gallery Inn, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12/31/06.
What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was offbeat because I made and designed my own gown, the groom’s outfit, my mother’s dress, and my mother in law’s dress! We had the wedding in the courtyard of an art hotel.
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 The offbeat bride: Madame Strange, educator
Her offbeat groom: Sensei Strange, Magician
Location & date of wedding: A friend’s yard, Austin Texas. 10/28/2006
What made our wedding offbeat: I was a geisha, he was a pirate, it was a costume wedding right before Halloween. It all began when we lived together in Japan, and he bought me an antique wedding kimono. It was so gorgeous, when he asked me to marry him I knew I had to wear it. And if I was going to wear it, I had to do it right, so I went all in. I had a friend make me a hair piece, dyed my hair black to go with it. He got to shoot the objector, another scurvy pirate. We had another magician tell our story prior to the pagan ceremony, followed by a hand fasting.
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 The offbeat bride: Liz, Marketing Communications
Her offbeat partner: Laurie, German studies scholar and language teacher
Location & date of wedding: The Night Kitchen restaurant at the Montague Book Mill, Montague, MA
What made our wedding offbeat: Probably the most “offbeat” aspect of our wedding, aside from our gayness and my burgundy gown (are those things even offbeat anymore? Please!), was our dress code: we specifically instructed our guests to Outshine the Bride. It was right there on our website and in the invitation, and our guests did an amazing job!
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Remember the wedding with cue cards? Here’s the full story!
 The offbeat bride: Yolkai, Mama, crafter, delicious food maker
Her offbeat groom: Anthony/Ackshawn, Teacher, K-8 Behavior Specialist
Location & date of wedding: Isis Oasis Sanctuary, a retreat center with an Egyptian theme in Geyserville, CA.
What made our wedding offbeat:We did it our way! After six years and a baby together we wanted the public declaration, the fancy outfits, and the big fun party! We chucked most of the mainstream wedding crap and held on to a few sweet traditions. Pretty much everything, from the invitations to the interpretive dance, was an expression of our style, our silliness, and our values.
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Remember Raina, the autumn bride who wore her mom’s dress? Here’s the full scoop on her library wedding!
 The offbeat bride: Raina, Graphic Designer
Her offbeat groom: Mike / freelance photographer & TV production guy
Location & date of wedding: The Clayville town library in Clayville, NY
What made our wedding offbeat: We really wanted to save a lot of money and keep it simple, simple, SIMPLE! We only had 7 people at the ceremony besides the two of us.
We did it at the tiny library in the town I grew up in. It was perfect because it was so small on the inside, and it happed to be a church at one point which lent itself to the layout of the ceremony well. We didn’t have a religious ceremony but it was kind of cute to be in an old church turned library (and my job involves designing book jackets, so it was extra special!).
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Remember the Wards and their colorful wedding? Well, here’s the full scoop!
The offbeat bride: Helen Ward, Graphic Designer
My offbeat groom: Tim Ward, Graphic Designer
Location & date of wedding: The Paintworks gallery space, Bristol, UK
What made our wedding offbeat: The first thing I knew was that I WAS NOT going to be wearing a white dress and that I WAS going to be wearing red shoes!! Everything else went from there really.
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