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Aerin & Jeremy’s Neo-Victorian Haunted Museum Wedding

Neither of us had really thought about what type of wedding we’d want until we were actually engaged, but there were definitely a few things we knew for sure… Churches were out. The white dress was out. Hundreds of guests were out. And then Aerin found a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and everything began to fall in place.

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Evita & Michael’s Beltane-Belle Époque DIY Fun-Fest!

Remember that wonderful handfasting cord tutorial from OBT member Lepapillonvert? Well, we finally got the entire scoop on her very green, very DIY wedding!

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Rae & Nate’s DIY, Potluck, Gun Club wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Rae, Graphic Artist Her Offbeat Partner: Nate Location & date of wedding: Ridge and Valley Gun Club, Coopersburg PA — the wedding was 2/2/09 & the party was on 5/16/09 What made our wedding offbeat: Money was a complete issue for our wedding, so we decided early on that we wanted to […]

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Our $2000 Summer Camp Wedding

We started the wedding planning process by declaring a strict and modest budget: $2,000 to be exact. We wanted our wedding to be about sincerity, authenticity, connection, and a celebration and proclamation of love and commitment. We didn’t want it to be about monogrammed napkins and excessive amounts of fondant. In all honesty, we didn’t want to let our wedding overshadow our relationship (and we needed to save money for the house we planned to buy four days after our wedding).

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Emily & Geoff’s Jewish Rockabilly Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Emily, Web Master/Science writer (and Tribesmaid Ellamie) Her Offbeat Partner: Geoff, Teacher/Poet Location & date of wedding: Valley Beth Shalom Temple, Encino, CA (I had my baby naming, my bat mitzvah and went to elementary school here) — May 25, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: First of all, we skipped most […]

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Rhiannon & Erick’s Santa Monica Pier Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Rhiannon, Office Assistant and writer of unpublished fiction Her Offbeat Partner: Erick, Apple Creative and Graphic Designer Location & date of wedding: Historical Santa Monica Pier Carousel, Santa Monica, CA — 4/18/09 What made our wedding offbeat: The goal of our wedding was to have as much fun as possible. We didn’t […]