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colorful

This is our archive of colorful wedding inspiration, which includes a ton of colorful wedding dresses — in fact, we’ve got archives for every color you can imagine, including RAINBOW!

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Bridesmaids as chakra fairies

You know it’s a left coast hippie wedding (secretly, my very favorite kind) when you’ve got your bridesmaids dressed up as chakra fairies: If you lean towards the hippie/raver forest fairy end of the offbeat spectrum (which GOD KNOWS I do!) you need to see all the photos on Facebook of this very Northern Californian […]

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Wai-Ching does it again

Yes, I’m a longtime fan of Wai-Ching dresses, and even wore one to my book release party. But with this silk dress, Chrissy Wai-Ching has truly outdone herself. No seriously: I love that Chrissy made the groom’s dramatic silk tie to match … but really you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the back of the […]

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Gasworks Park wedding in Seattle

Oh jeez, I can’t help but love the hometown weddings, and a special thanks to Nyomi for emailing me about this wonderful Seattle wedding. I’ve tried living in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston … but I always find myself coming back to my beloved Seattle, in part because of people like Caleb […]

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Prom dresses make daring wedding gowns

I’m all for white dresses, red dresses, blue dresses, purple dresses, but ZOMG I actually gasped out loud when I saw this picture of Kelly Devoto‘s fantastical colorful peacock-y wedding dress — which it turns out was actually designed to be a prom dress.

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Haley & Joe’s infamous porange Buddhist hippie party wedding

Haley & Joe are totally Burners, and since half my friends are at Burning Man this week, I figured it was the perfect time to feature this fabulously PORANGE wedding! The offbeat bride: Haley, Nanny Her offbeat partner: Joe, Engineer Location & date of wedding: Joaquin Miller Park Cascade, Oakland, CA. June 29, 2008 What […]

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Sandy’s colorful, crafty, hip-but-won’t-scare-grandma wedding

Well, that didn’t take long! As seen on OBB yesterday, here’s the full scoop on Sandy’s colorful wedding and her Christmas ornament bouquet. The offbeat bride: Sandy – high school secretary/craft maniac Her offbeat partner: Josh – middle school social studies teacher/musician Location & date of wedding: 3/15/08 at Butler’s Courtyard in League City, TX […]