Announcing the birth of our sister site: Offbeat Mama!

The average American wedding costs over $25,000. I encourage brides to find innovative, thoughtful ways to reduce their bridal budgets, and if you do choose to spend money, spend it on independent vendors and thoughtfully-made merch like the stuff below…

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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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The Etsy Wedding blog has done it again, sniffing out gorgeous custom letterpress invitations from Etsy seller Pistachio Press. Nope, they're not cheap. But man, they're inspiring.

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.

Jenny Jimenez

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Westergard Photo

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.


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