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Real Offbeat Weddings

We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to simple and small weddings. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Virginia & Lars’ Snow White & the Red Rose Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Virginia Her Offbeat Partner: Lars Location & date of wedding: Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis, IN — June 2, 2007 What made our wedding offbeat: I tied in my favorite Grimm fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red” into our Venetian Carnevale theme, to keep guests wondering what was coming next. I […]

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Melissa & Sean’s Edinburgh Castle Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Melissa – Executive Director, but you may remember her from being profiled previously on OffbeatBride.com in “Offbeat Military Weddings.” Her Offbeat Partner: Sean – Soldier Location & Date of wedding: Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Scotland — Sept 11, 2007 What made our wedding offbeat: Blue medieval wedding dress custom made, all the guys […]

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Christina & Aaron’s bug and dinosaur-infused wedding at a sake factory

This is what happens when you combine amazing green wedding outfits, creepy crawly bugs, and dinosaurs in a sake factory.

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Retro Palm Springs Wedding

You’ve seen these two before — now get the full story! The Offbeat Bride: Crystal, Graphic Designer Her Offbeat Partner: Andy, Art Director Location & Date of wedding: Private residence in Palm Springs, CA — Sept. 17, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We didn’t set out to have a theme wedding but, by combining […]

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Kimi & Paul’s Jug Band, Critter-Filled Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Kimi, artist and designer Her Offbeat Partner: Paul, artist and museum worker Location & Date of wedding: Audubon Boathouse, Prospect Park Brooklyn — 9/12/2008 What made our wedding offbeat: I’m half-Japanese Hawaiian and half Jewish, and my now-husband is an ex-Mormon, so tradition was out the window. All we wanted was a […]

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Katrina & Mikhail’s low-budget costumers’ wedding on a pirate ship

The Offbeat Bride: Katrina, Video and Event Production Specialist Her Offbeat Partner: Mikhail, Freelance Photographer Location & date of wedding: St. Louis Renaissance Faire Park, St. Louis, MO — July 19, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding cost us about $500 for about 60 people, but that’s not all! We had our fairy […]