Sweater-wearing grooms, lots of wine, and local cheese: a laidback Oregon coast wedding #Wedding Porn#beach#food#gay#LGBTQ#mustaches#oregon#wedding dogs Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Feb 20 2014) Stephanie Kaloi Photos by: Amanda Photographic All photos by Amanda Photographic. Brian and Chris planned and supervised every single detail of their two-and-a-half-day-long wedding celebration at Camp Westwind. The two took their chances with the unpredictable coastal weather and lucked into a gorgeous sunny day that accented the cheery details, like bright pink and yellow floral centerpieces and the rainbow equality flags hung on a building. Their dog Callisto served double duty as ring bearer and sole wedding party member. The semi-religious ceremony included all of their parents and siblings. Mustachioed table numbers tucked inside wine glasses were in used in lieu of a seating chart, and there was plenty of local Oregon cheese to go around! Vendors! Photographer: Amanda Photographic • Caterer: Brian Parks Catering • Other Location: Camp Westwind Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Stephanie Kaloi I was the editor of the now-defunct Offbeat Families, and owner/photographer at Stephanie Kaloi Photography in Portland, OR. PREVIOUS Cassie & Ryan's starting line running wedding NEXT The wedding day Shenanigans Box: "look ridiculous in the best way" Show/Hide comments [ 17 ] Sweaters, beaches, mountains, dogs, wine, cheese-what's not to love? What a cute couple! Reply LOVE that photograph at the end, silhouette and sunset, swoon! Reply Handsome men getting married in sweaters. What is not to love? Yay! Reply I hope we get to learn more about this wedding. From the photos it looks like an amazingly laid-back, authentic, and intimate day. Reply I have an answer to this question, and it's way more longwinded than you were expecting. On Offbeat Bride, we have two types of "real wedding" posts we do: * Wedding profiles, which are submitted by the couples themselves. They fill out our big long form and give lots of details. * Wedding porn, which is submitted by the photographers. Because the couple isn't submitting the wedding, we don't get many details. On our submission page, we're clear that we always prefer getting submissions from couples… in part because we know readers like you love getting the full details! But of course there are tons of couples who've never read Offbeat Bride or even if they have, they may not have any interest in taking the time to fill out our big wedding profile form…. so we like to also allow photographers to submit weddings directly to us, even if it means we get less details to share. tl;dr On Wedding Porn posts, we don't have more information to share. If we can, we include a link to where folks can learn more on the photographer's website, but these posts definitely aren't a tease for full wedding profiles. Reply I love it when an answer is long-winded, thank you! Reply Hi Claire. You can read and see more of Brian + Chris' wedding on my own blog post at http://amandaphotographic.com/2013/10/28/brian-chris-wedding-weekend-at-camp-westwind/ It was a magical weekend! Reply Oh wow. Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful photos. This has to be hands down one of my favorite weddings that I've seen on OBB. This couple is clearly very blessed to have such a great community. Wishing them many more blessings in the future! Reply OMG! Thank you for sharing the link on your blog. That looked like an amazing weekend and the food, the FOOD! It all looked absolutely delicious! Congrats to the happy couple! Reply Ah! After reading I thought, "the only thing that could make this post better is more pictures." Thanks! Reply Oooooooooh sweaters! That is some spectacular photography, it captures a beauty that is both sparse and warm. Congratulations to the happy couple. Reply So I'm looking at all these gorgeous pictures, reveling in the goodness–handsome grooms! decorations! beach! dog! But what brought me to my knees is that god damn cheese. I don't even like cheese and that looks fucking delicious. Reply What an amazing wedding! I love that they involved their dog. If any OBB staffers are reading…I would LOVE to see a how-t0 post on including pets in weddings. My partner and I would like to include our fur baby (a cute and feisty German shepherd mix) in our wedding, but I don't know how to go about it. Do we have her at the venue all day? Hire a dogsitter and only bring her for the ceremony? Are we making a disastrous mistake? I'd love to hear from folks who've done it. Reply I don't have any advice, but if anyone is having a wedding in the DC area and needs a dog sitter, I would LOVE to help! Reply Gahh! Their dog is an adorable muppet!!!! Beautiful! Reply Oh, I'm just so happy to see pictures of Offbeat Grooms!!! Yay! PLUS – Cheese and sweaters? YES PLEASE! Reply OMG the sweaters!!! Also <3 the tying the tie photo. Can I please have that flag for my wedding? Thank you! Reply Join the conversation Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign me up for your offbeat awesomeness newsletter! No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy. Biz owners & wedding bloggers Please just use your real name in your comment, not your business name or blog title. Our comments are not the place to pimp your website. If you want to promote your stuff on Offbeat Bride, join us as an advertiser instead.
I hope we get to learn more about this wedding. From the photos it looks like an amazingly laid-back, authentic, and intimate day. Reply
I have an answer to this question, and it's way more longwinded than you were expecting. On Offbeat Bride, we have two types of "real wedding" posts we do: * Wedding profiles, which are submitted by the couples themselves. They fill out our big long form and give lots of details. * Wedding porn, which is submitted by the photographers. Because the couple isn't submitting the wedding, we don't get many details. On our submission page, we're clear that we always prefer getting submissions from couples… in part because we know readers like you love getting the full details! But of course there are tons of couples who've never read Offbeat Bride or even if they have, they may not have any interest in taking the time to fill out our big wedding profile form…. so we like to also allow photographers to submit weddings directly to us, even if it means we get less details to share. tl;dr On Wedding Porn posts, we don't have more information to share. If we can, we include a link to where folks can learn more on the photographer's website, but these posts definitely aren't a tease for full wedding profiles. Reply
Hi Claire. You can read and see more of Brian + Chris' wedding on my own blog post at http://amandaphotographic.com/2013/10/28/brian-chris-wedding-weekend-at-camp-westwind/ It was a magical weekend! Reply
Oh wow. Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful photos. This has to be hands down one of my favorite weddings that I've seen on OBB. This couple is clearly very blessed to have such a great community. Wishing them many more blessings in the future! Reply
OMG! Thank you for sharing the link on your blog. That looked like an amazing weekend and the food, the FOOD! It all looked absolutely delicious! Congrats to the happy couple! Reply
Ah! After reading I thought, "the only thing that could make this post better is more pictures." Thanks! Reply
Oooooooooh sweaters! That is some spectacular photography, it captures a beauty that is both sparse and warm. Congratulations to the happy couple. Reply
So I'm looking at all these gorgeous pictures, reveling in the goodness–handsome grooms! decorations! beach! dog! But what brought me to my knees is that god damn cheese. I don't even like cheese and that looks fucking delicious. Reply
What an amazing wedding! I love that they involved their dog. If any OBB staffers are reading…I would LOVE to see a how-t0 post on including pets in weddings. My partner and I would like to include our fur baby (a cute and feisty German shepherd mix) in our wedding, but I don't know how to go about it. Do we have her at the venue all day? Hire a dogsitter and only bring her for the ceremony? Are we making a disastrous mistake? I'd love to hear from folks who've done it. Reply
I don't have any advice, but if anyone is having a wedding in the DC area and needs a dog sitter, I would LOVE to help! Reply
Oh, I'm just so happy to see pictures of Offbeat Grooms!!! Yay! PLUS – Cheese and sweaters? YES PLEASE! Reply
OMG the sweaters!!! Also <3 the tying the tie photo. Can I please have that flag for my wedding? Thank you! Reply