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Decor

If you’re looking for wedding decoration ideas, we’ve got everything from geeky centerpieces to unique ways to use balloons and paper lanterns, to escort cards and SO MUCH MORE OMG. If you’re looking for tutorials, be sure to check our wedding decoration DIY archive.

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Non-floral centerpieces 2.0

A thousand years ago, okay more like three years ago, Ariel put out a post called “Non floral centerpieces.” Well, in Offbeat Bride years, three years is a looooong time because we’ve been inundated with so many more amazing alternatives to floral centerpieces since then. So here is our non-floral centerpieces post version 2.0.

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Offbeat Peeps

OMGWTFLUFF! This year, Offbeat Bride reader Onyah entered a diorama inspired by the TV show Say Yes to the Dress. Washington Post announced the winners and Onyah was not one of them, but she’s a total winner on OBB!

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Skip the tablecloths – wacky wedding placemats for the win!

The idea of spending money on tablecloths that are guaranteed to be stained with bbq sauce (to the tune of 120 bucks) made me angry and frustrated. How would I wash them? How could I throw them away? I didn’t personally feel good about plastic ones in part because the way the plastic sounds — when it rubs against itself it’s like fingernails on the chalkboard to me (heebiejeebies).

So, after a festive jaunt to a local fast-food place, I had an epiphany.

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Fun with old-timey carnival cut-outs!

Tribe member Gypsy Marie, aka. Cutiebookworm, and friends, have created some old-timey carnival cutouts for their October wedding. They used a book of circus art for inspiration and came up with these babies…

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You can have your cake and & NOT eat it too.

What happens when a crafty offbeat bride doesn’t like cake but doesn’t want to miss out on the aesthetics that a “wedding pie” just doesn’t quite provide? She crochets one… Wow. OBT member Corinne is responsible for this amazing wedding creation (as well as the fabulous crocheted flower embellished bouquet from last week). This crocheted […]

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My DIY skull theme

My fiance is OBSESSED with Duke Basketball… so the wedding colors are Duke blue. i reeeally love skulls so we are incorporating skulls into the stationary, place cards and cake. i’m pretty proud of the subtle incorporation of skulls in the invitations: and here are the place cards… these are going to have the swirls […]