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Rewearing wedding outfits, blogger time management, and raving

This is my new regular feature where I answer questions from readers. Not wedding advice questions (I do that over here) but personal questions, blogging questions, etc. Let’s dive in… Do you have any pics of yourself and Andre [sic] re-using wedding stuff? (Like your outfit?) -Corinne I swear Andreas wore his sleeveless tux jacket […]

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Questions from you: Strangest weddings, what inspired me to start OBB, what I regret from my wedding, and more!

Inspired by Princess Lasertron (because really, who isn’t?) I’ve decided to start doing a semi-regular feature where I answer reader questions. Not, like, wedding advice questions. But questions about other stuff — the site, the world, whatever. Here are the first batch of questions, which came in via Offbeat Bride’s Facebook page: At OBB, we’re […]

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Recent bride reality check

Tribe member Rodrigues left this message on the Offbeat Bride facebook page: I am glad to see you touching on subjects of marriage and tradition/values rather than just “wedding detritus.” I think its really important to steer the focus away from stuff whenever possible, especially since its so easy to become obsessed with it while […]

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Why didn’t you feature my wedding?

Sometimes we get emails from brides who’ve submitted their weddings, asking us what was wrong with their wedding that we didn’t feature it. So maybe it’s time to explain how we pick the weddings we feature…

2009 Reader Survey results

Last month I invited y’all to tell me a bit about yourselves via my first ever Reader Survey. Close to 2000 of you took the time to answer my questions — THANK YOU! The exercise was truly enlightening on many levels, and I figured I’d take the time to share some of the results with […]

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10 reasons you need to read Offbeat Bride the book, and not just offbeatwed.com

It’s a painful irony for me as an author: I set up offbeatwed.com to promote Offbeat Bride, and now it turns out that almost 70% of my readers opt for the marketing materials instead of the book itself!