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board games

Not into dancing? Want to give introverts a great wedding activity? Making board games available is a win-win wedding dance alternative.

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Maureen & Ian’s vintage New Year’s wedding with light sabers!

Maureen & Ian had an Old Hollywood meets modern nerdy New Year’s wedding complete with a light saber fight in the middle of the ceremony and light saber favors!

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Heavy Metal Cabaret wedding

I honestly can’t wait to get ALL the details on DonnaMarie (aka. Tribe member DM) and Ricky’s “Heavy Metal Cabaret” wedding. But photographer Angela Cappetta contacted us with a sneak peak so here’s a little treat for you…

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Scrabble-themed wedding shower

We feature very few posts about wedding showers, because wedding showers aren’t often, well, offbeat! But here’s a Scrabble-themed shower that we thought y’all might like!

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Clarissa & Joseph’s Modern Harlem Renaissance Wedding

Clarissa and Sam were inspired by the Harlem Renaissance to create this edgy, playful wedding complete with a naked sushi lady, movies, and games.

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Hayley & Patrick’s color-scheme-free, crazy-hair-filled wedding dorkfest

Haley & Patrick are lucky in the sense that both of their parents were very supportive of their offbeat-ness. This allowed them to have their wedding day their way. So, they had a quaker ceremony, followed by a reception filled with games and dancing!

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Alex & Scott’s subterranean, music-snob’s dream wedding

Alex & Scott pride themselves on their good taste in music. It’s no wonder their entire ceremony was planned around music and held in a venue meant as a club for large band gigs.