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europe

Although we’re published in the US, we’ve featured weddings in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and more!

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Ruth & Gareth’s small and sparkly, feel-the-love day

Ruth & Gareth’s kept their wedding intimate, with only twenty-two of their closest friends and family in attendance.

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Terri & Sebastian’s spontaneous, intimate European elopement

Terri and Sebastian ditched all the traditional wedding accoutrements for their Spain elopement, and instead treated the day like a fabulous photo shoot. Wait till you see the photos!

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Katia & Andreas’ low-budget, triple tiered German wedding

The offbeat bride: Katia, translator, photographer, dancer Her offbeat partner: Andreas, WEB 2,0 Master, PR-Officer, music expert Location & date of wedding: Kettwig-Rathaus, Germany; “3/4 Zehn” Kettwig; “Veranda” Odessa; the Crimea trip — 6th August 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: I am from Ukraine. My husband is German. So all clichees are there at […]

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8-bit video game wedding invitations!

Just in time to celebrate Geek Week — Offbeat Bride Tribe member Darina and her fiance Niko have unveiled their 8-bit video game wedding invitations that they designed themselves! Darina explains: “We knew that we didn’t want standard paper invites. We wanted something for people to keep and remember. We are geeks. We love video […]

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Fran & Siobhán’s feminist, disability-friendly, colourful, vegan wedding

Living a non-traditional life meant our guests weren’t expecting a traditional day from the start, so we had complete freedom. We’re bisexual so it was important our day was a celebration of not just our love but of love generally.

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Christina & Marius’ stellar trans-continental, Oslo to NYC, wedding celebration

The offbeat bride: Christina, Curator Her offbeat partner: Marius, Artist & blogger Location & date of wedding: Sister’s garden in Oslo, Norway AND Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY — June 22, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: He’s Norwegian and I’m American, so we decided to have two parties — one in Oslo, Norway and […]