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Heidi & Scott’s rustic, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

Heidi & Scott love DIY projects, so why should their wedding be any different? They did just about everything themselves, which resulted in a wonderful, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

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Amanda & John’s Vedic wedding ceremony and square dance wedding party

Amanda & John scrapped their planned two-year engagement for a intimate Vedic ceremony six weeks later. Then nine months later they threw a celebratory square dance!

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This nontraditional hospital wedding

Rebekah and Shayne’s decided to move up the wedding when Shayne was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. Since they did not have enough time for wedding rings, they decided on matching gray Converse with pink shoelaces instead!

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Avalon & Daniel’s gothic faerie wedding

Avalon (her awesome faux-hawk) & Daniel got weddinged at a mansion. They had a gothic faerie, victorian theme and were married by the powers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Anke & Dave’s rock-n-roll, Las Vegas elopement… with Elvis

The offbeat bride: Anke Her offbeat partner: Dave Location & date of wedding: Las Vegas, Nevada, A Special Memory Chapel — October 21st, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: First, excuse me for my bad English, we come from germany. My hubby and I didn’t ever want a “normal” wedding with a meringue colored dress […]

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Sarah & Paul’s simple and fun outdoor wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Sarah, Social Worker and student Her Offbeat Partner: Paul, Web Developer at Minnesota Public Radio Location & date of wedding: Minnehaha Falls Park and our back yard in south Minneapolis, MN — September 20, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was offbeat for several reasons. First, we had a short […]