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Do you ever feel like you're too traditional to be offbeat, but too offbeat to be traditional? Do you ever worry if you're "offbeat enough"? Do you feel like you have whiplash, feeling ostracized because some of your choices are too weird for your family, but "too traditional" to be considered offbeat? We're all unique, and we're all wrestling with the friction between traditional pressures and the perceived pressures of wanting your wedding to be "unique." You're in great company. Read up...

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Your wedding is not a contest

The dirty flip-side of "my wedding is too weird" is "my wedding isn't weird enough." Both sentiments make me sad because your wedding is not a contest.

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Hey, I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, the Seattle-based author of a book called Offbeat Bride: Create a Wedding That's Authentically YOU. This website is the ongoing celebration of folks daring to walk off the beaten aisle, but I also wrote a book about surviving a shitshow.

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