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 The offbeat bride: Laurie, Admin. Asst.
My offbeat groom: Santiago, Quality Control Engineer
Location & date of wedding: April 1, 2007. Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, MA for ceremony / Springstep dance & arts complex in Medford, MA for reception
What made our wedding offbeat: We had a very DIY wedding, with tons of help from friends. I wrote our ceremony. We had a potluck reception with better food than many catered affairs I’ve attended. We bought flowers online and arranged them ourselves. I am Jewish, he is Catholic; we decided to have a secular wedding with elements of each tradition, with a hefty dose of science fiction/fantasy geekery thrown in.
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 The offbeat bride: Marie-Eve, graphic designer
My offbeat groom: Vincent, maître d’hôtel
Location & date of wedding: Manoir des Érables’s gardens, in Montmagny (a little city in the province of Québec, Canada) June 16, 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted to get married only if it was to be in our way. We wanted something simple and fun. We enrolled my aunt Lucie to be our “minister” and we wrote the whole ceremony together, with vows speaking of chicken soup and gigs we attended through the years.
“I want it to be FUN, not PERFECT” was my mantra
We choose our readings from children books and Beatles songs and wrote a special one for our family members. We also had a few of my sister’s friends playing some wonderful live music: we walked in on “Here comes the Sun” and run out on “All you need is Love.”
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 The offbeat bride: Melissa, Web Master
My offbeat groom: John, Network Admin
Location & date of wedding: Uptight Wedding Chapel in Trenton, MI, April 23, 2005
What made our wedding offbeat: Mostly we bucked tradition. Not even in a huge, flamboyant way. But it drove the chapel owner/managers crazy and the minister refused to speak with us except for the ceremony itself.
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I finally got the scoop on the vineyard wedding I featured in last week’s wedding porn.
 The offbeat bride: Rebecca, Speech and language therapist
My offbeat groom: Jeremy, Biomedical engineer
Location & date of wedding: Alexis Bailly Vineyard ~ Hastings, Minnesota ~ August 2007
What made our wedding offbeat: We kept it simple and intimate, with the charming vineyard grounds and surrounding country landscape as our only “decoration.” The winery was open to the public (which actually made it more fun), and only our parents, siblings and their spouses, and grandparents attended the ceremony.
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In Offbeat Bride, I talk about the concept of having two weddings — this couple took that concept to the extreme! Opposites really do attract — and get married.
 The offbeat bride: Amber, Cosmetologist
My offbeat groom: Scott, Construction worker
Location & date of wedding: Two locations in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2006: a friend’s home on The 4th of July, and in a park for Beltane with a maypole.
 What made our wedding offbeat: We had two weddings, mine and his. Mine was a pagan handfasting ceremony on Beltane, complete with fairies and a maypole and a priestess named Heron. His was a patriotic 4th of July bar-b-que, complete with surprising American Flag ensemble.
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 The offbeat bride: Christina, Architect/intern
My offbeat groom: Michael, Musician/vintage furniture salesman
Location & date of wedding: Ceremony at Trinity Church and reception at Sunset Tavern, both in Seattle, June 2007.
What made our wedding offbeat: We tried to do things our way and not get caught up in everything we “had to have” for the wedding. We were able to have a totally rockin’ wedding with a very small budget.
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 The offbeat bride: Sarah, barista
My offbeat groom: Josh, architecture student
Location & date of wedding: County park in St. Louis, MO (May 20th, 2007)
What made our wedding offbeat: I know “green” weddings are quite popular on the coasts, but here in the Midwest, people were stunned. We did our best, on our budget, to be eco-friendly. And our subtle message resonated with our guests, who were all intrigued and asked lots of questions. Our wedding was truly a family affair. Our focus was on having a nice, peaceful, low stress day. Oh, and our goal was to spend less than $2,000. We ended up spending about $2,500, which is probably rounding up, on a wedding with 75 guests.
We kept our own names. I wore Chuck Taylor’s at the reception. Fuck heels.
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 The offbeat bride: Elly, student
My offbeat groom: Justin, art guy
Location & date of wedding: May 5 2007 at a family ranch in Ellensburg, WA (middle of nowhere, just about)
What made our wedding offbeat: Ways we were odd: wrote our own very naturalistic vows, made and/or altered a lot of the small details, bought the dress (and many other bits) on ebay, did a ‘formal’ ceremony in barefeet. Yes, I think we scared the crap out of some people, including the neighbors. We each had three rings. That was probably the most expensive part beyond the Canadian photographer!
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