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jewish

This is where Jewish wedding traditions meet offbeat tastes… we’ve got everything from geeky Jewish wedding ceremonies, to LGBTQ Jewish weddings, to interfaith weddings (Hin-Jew? Jew-Bu? We gotchoo!), all the way to eco chuppah ideas, and more…

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Casey & Ari’s cultural mish-mash autumn wedding

This week we’re celebrating our awesome Offbeat Lite couples. This time we have a fall-colored wedding with lots of cultural elements and some crazy dancing. They even had a Best Dame and a Flower Tween. But beware of falling brides during the horah.

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Miriam & Zachary’s Casablanca-inspired Old Hollywood wedding

Met in Israel, love Middle Eastern culture, love Old Hollywood… it’s the perfect recipe for a Casablanca-themed party. These two managed to combine Jewish traditions with their own DIY-infused style after a budget crisis shook everything up.

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Juno & Noah’s queer feminist interfaith wedding

This worldly couple manages to elegantly combine traditions from Buddhist, Jewish, Filipino, Catholic, and Chinese into one heckuva wedding. And you don’t want to miss the a-dor-able video of Juno surprising Noah with a choreographed dance number!

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Alissa & Eric’s post-punk playground party wedding

Alissa proposed to Eric and they had a Jewish ceremony at the request of Alissa’s mother. The wedding site had a ball pit and a hidden, full-size helicopter. Read on and find the helicopter!

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My retro-futuristic chuppah

Our chuppah’s design was inspired by the Jetsons cartoons, 50s-era “googie” architecture like the Theme Building at LAX, and movies like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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Dori & Ben’s Jewish, vegan, eco-friendly wedding and bonfire

In honor of the beginning of Hanukkah or The Festival of Lights, here is Dori and Ben’s Jewish wedding, which fittingly (I thought) ends with a bonfire! Happy Hanukkah!