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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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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 […]

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Laura & Rob’s Day of the Dead wedding, vintage-style

We decided on a Day of the Dead theme for a few reasons. First, we love and collect Day of the Dead art. Second, Rob’s parents retired in Mexico and collect/make Day of the Dead art. Third, my son is half Mexican, it all seemed to fit!

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Kelly & Chris’s NY Tea Party Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Kelly, Make up Artist My Offbeat Partner: Chris, Software Engineer Location & date of the wedding: New York, NY courthouse, and reception at Alice’s Tea Cup. March 20, 2009. What made our wedding offbeat: I bucked tradition by having a mid-day tea party wedding: Everything was exactly like the tea parties I […]

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Rachael & Dustin’s Goth Buddhist Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Rachael, Neurobiology grad student and researcher (and hard-workingOBT mod) My Offbeat Partner: Dustin, Writer and English major Location & date of the wedding: Wyndham St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, TX — 06/07/2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Those that know us personally, really got it. Allow me to explain: Dustin is the […]