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Fashion DIY

Did you know you can DIY your wedding dress? Yep! We’ve also got DIY wedding shoes, jewelry, accessories, and other wedding DIY tutorials If you don’t want to make stuff (but just want to get some wedding dress and fashion inspiration), our fashion porn archives are for you!

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How to make your own feathery floral hair fascinator

Offbeat Bride Tribe member/crafter Rachel took the advice of her photographer and crafted herself and her bridesmaids some feathery floral fascinators for her and her new hubby’s black and red uber-stylish wedding. This is a step-by-step tutorial she put together (mere days after The Big Day!).

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How to make geek-tastic 8-bit wedding accessories

After spying Donelle and Adam’s glorious 8-Bit wedding, we fell head over heels for the DIYed 8-bit boutonnieres, hair clips, corsages and, of course, Donelle’s “diamond” necklace. Here’s how you can make ’em.

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How to make a kick-ass floral head wreath

OBT member “iLiveinmyLab” posted this great step-by-step on one of her wedding planning updates. This is for those brides who want to know how to make one of the kick ass floral head wreaths that they sell at the Renaissance fairs without paying lots of money. I used to make these all the time but […]

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Anya’s rainbow wedding dress

We all know I’m a sucker for a colorful wedding, but my eyes almost fell out of my skull when Zahra emailed me about Anya’s full-spectrum Australian rainbow wedding …

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How to dye your crinoline

This is a fabulous how-to from Tales of Female Husband, who offers her tips on dying your own colorful crinoline.

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Handmade blue wedding dress

Thanks to offbeat reader Danielle for emailing me about these amazing photos from the schoolhouse wedding of Lulu Bliss. The bride made her 1950s-style tea-length dress by hand (she reports it took about 100 hours) and if you look carefully, you’ll see red crinoline peeking out the bottom. (Colored crinoline FTW!) We all know I’m […]