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What’s your candy buffet style? Come choose from 18 sweet themes!

Candy buffets are fucking sweet, amirite? After a stroll through our massive candy buffet archives, I am now a believer that you can do WHATEVER you want with these babies. Going for the elegant look? Scroll down to No. 17. Sweet and lovely and cute? See the tea party at No. 12. Just want to get down to business with all things chocolate? Come hang out with me at No. 15.

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11 offbeat questions for The Wedding Shoe Game

Depending on your neck of the woods, you reaction to The Shoe Game could be anything from: “Oh, yeah, that game every couple plays at weddings around here” to “whoa, I’ve never heard of that! Tell me how to play NOW.” But whether you’ve seen this game at weddings on the regular or Cait & Matt’s wedding was the first you’d heard of it, we need to talk about what an Offbeat Bride Shoe Game would look like.

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A nest of eggs? Seven pounds of iron? These epic non-floral bouquets will ignite your creativity

Felt and paper bouquets are super popular for good reason — they’re fucking awesome! And you can keep them around a hell of a lot longer than real flowers. But I am here to tell you that there are oh so many more options for your non-floral bouquet. Believe it or don’t, but 25 is just a fraction of the examples we’ve got squirreled away on Offbeat Bride.

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Come gawk at grooms with long hair

We give a lot of love to the looks of our Offbeat Brides — I mean, we’ve got archives full of posts about birdcage veils and fascinators and nonfloral bouquets — so it’s totally time to give some limelight to our grooms too. This week, let’s respect the hair, man, and admire 20 ways our grooms rock their gorgeous, long hair.

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Embrace fall colors with these orange wedding dresses

Wow, you guys LUV’d the black wedding dresses post we did! So I was like, maybe Offbeat Brides would like to be reminded about all of our orange dresses too? I started wandering through our archives (that thing is deep, yo. Take a flashlight and drop breadcrumbs). I found 10 stunning orange dresses just because I like you so much. Enjoy!

This couple took their own wedding photos in Yosemite National Park

Shawn and Marcie got married in the Oakland California Temple after being friends for 16 years and partners for nine. Marcie says, “When I say finally, it’s like a FINALLY, married.” Cameras aren’t allowed inside, but photos still happened — courtesy of the couple themselves! Shawn and Marcie took a few images of their own reception before trekking five hours to Yosemite National Park where they did their own formal wedding portraits. They took turns behind the camera, even shooting in film! The results are intimate, personal, and (ahem) au naturale. Just saying you need to scroll to the very end.