Danielle & Roland’s halloween wedding party
The Offbeat Bride: Danielle, Business Owner Missing Piece, LLC Her Offbeat Partner: Roland, Photographer/Carpenter Location & date of wedding: Our house in San Francisco, CA — Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: I met Roland at Burning Man and we were married exactly two months later, on Halloween. He is from London […]
Jenell & Joe’s sassy & informal Phoenix arts district wedding
The Offbeat Bride: Jenell – Interior Designer (commercial), and OBT member “Jenell” Her Offbeat Partner: Joe – Marketing Content Writer/Editor Location & date of wedding: The Paisley Violin Cafe, Phoenix AZ What made our wedding offbeat: We decided to keep our wedding small, personal, and inexpensive and save some money for a really nice honeymoon […]
Ali & Phil’s laid-back lunchtime celebration
“I’m from New Jersey, he’s from Fiji. We met on a ship in Liberia, and he proposed with a tie wrap in Canada.”
Naomi & Casey’s punk rock Iowa wedding
The offbeat bride: Naomi Her offbeat partner: Casey Location & date of wedding: First Assembly Church Chapel in Cedar Rapids, IA. November 1, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: For starters, I wore a black dress. It was actually a bridesmaid’s dress, which made it tons cheaper. Then, we did almost everything ourselves. I made […]
How to plan a wedding in 2 months
When Jim and I made the decision to get married this May, we knew we weren’t going to have the luxury of a long engagement; Jim had recently received orders for a 400-day mission overseas and we knew we would have to have everything done and in order before he had to report for training in mid-August.
Jessica and Matthew’s laid-back under-$1000 wedding
We decided to get married after having seen each other in person only five times (over a year and a half) and burning through countless verizon cell-to-cell minutes. We had only two months to plan the wedding, and I (the bride) was living in California while the groom and the wedding was in Connecticut. I arrived in Connecticut four days before the wedding and thankfully had family and friends who handled all the preparations while Matthew and I generally freaked out.