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Kevin & Mark’s rainbow psychedelic three-day wedding

This three-day celebration is all about color, amazing hand-carved landscapes, and fab entertainment. We’re talking stilt-walkers, costumes, lasers, and a pre-wedding disco party where everyone wore bridesmaids dresses! And just wait until you see how these two crafted their rings. Hint: it involves a neuroscientist!

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Color gradient dress: from purple to blue to green to yellow to HEAVEN

Remember this cake that I talked about last fall, driving people crazy by inventing the non-word “gradiated”? Well, if that cake was a dress, it would be this flabbergastingly gormendulous (MAKING UP WORDS!) dress that Laura wore to her wedding.

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Jax & Andy’s geeky glam Gwen Stefani-loving wedding

This bride is ready to rumble with her blueprint-accurate Millennium Falcon cake, handmade ketubah, salsa dancing dad, and major glam. Gwen must be nuts to skip this wedding.

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Jennifer & Michael’s sexy earthy wedding

The offbeat bride: Jennifer, Mental Health Counselor/professional photographer/Fire Performance Artist Her offbeat partner: Michael Canton, Professional Photographer/Tech Guru Location & date of wedding: Beardslee Castle, Little Falls, New York. May 2, 2009. What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was OURS. It was US. I wanted to wear red and have the most gorgeous flowing […]

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Shana & Bill’s Sunny Muddy Kid-Friendly Farm Wedding

The offbeat bride: Shana, Renewable Energy Her offbeat partner: Bill, Renewable Energy Location & date of wedding: Our farm in Gouverneur, NY on August 2nd, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: First, it was on a rundown, beat up, muddy, treacherous farm. There is no barn to speak of, and everything has been abandoned for […]

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Behold this $500 library wedding

We only had seven guests, and we only spent $500. We spent the tiniest fraction of money you can on a wedding — we did this because we live in Brooklyn (high rent!) and our parents didn’t have money to give us so we knew we just had to be creative.