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Wedding Planning 101

You’ve just gotten engaged and don’t know where to start. Here are some wedding planning basics to get you started in planning your alternative wedding with Offbeat Wed!

Mermaid invitation from Concertina Press on @offbeatbride

Offset, letterpress, foil… buh? Our wedding invitation printing techniques primer

Offset, foil-stamped, letterpress, engraving… if you want awesome invitations but this is all gibberish, this is the printing techniques primer for you.

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Slushies, food trucks, and brunch: 10 delicious ways to make your wedding food fun

We recently listed out 13 ways to make your reception more fun, but the REAL way to your guests’s hearts is through their stomachs, right? Here are 10 of our favorite ways to make reception food and drink more awesome and entertaining including food trucks, slushies, candy buffets, finger foods, signature mocktails, and brunch for dinner. Let’s get our foodies hats on to bring the catering game up to eleven.

Wedding hair tips from @offbeatbride

Get some wedding hairstyle insurance with these 11 wedding hair tips

We’re adding on to our archive of wedding hairstyle tips with these ways to ensure that you aren’t obsessing with your style all day long. Apparently we unconsciously think about our hair many times a day, and I’m thinking your wedding day is going to be on hair-fussing overdrive. Let’s talk wedding hair tips for all your offbeat wedding hairstyle needs.

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9 wedding website tips to inform, reassure, and give guests warm fuzzies

You’ve snagged your wedding website name, maybe a fun theme, and now you’ve got to fill it with information. Guests can end up relying pretty heavily on your wedding website, especially if you’re having a destination wedding, multi-day wedding, or have some cultural traditions that may be new to some guests. Let’s get the most bang out of your buck by including the information your guests will need. Here are our favorite wedding website tips for offbeat weddings.

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13 ways to make a wedding reception more fun – zones, props, and tattoos!

If you’re stressing about ways to make your reception as fun as it can be, we hear you. Any wedding planner can tell you that party planning is an art all about timing, finesse, and lots of food. Here are 15 of our favorite ways to make a reception more fun including games, zones, selfies, lots of creative eating and drinking opportunities, and whetting the appetite for late night surprises.

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Cover your ass and save some cash with these honeymoon planning tips

All stressed-up from wedding planning? Maybe take a breather and plan the honeymoon for awhile instead (if you’re taking one, of course). Here are our honeymoon planning tips to save money, save time, and save your ass, because, seriously, planning a vacation shouldn’t make you NEED a vacation, right?