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Author of three editions of the Offbeat Bride book and its sequel (From Shitshow To Afterglow, the ultimate offbeat breakup book) Ariel Meadow Stallings is the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire web properties. She lives in Seattle with her son. To read her latest writing, follow @arielist on Medium.
Hips and Curves Plus Size Vintage Shaper Garter Skirt Black alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Retro-styled undies to go under that retro-styled wedding dress [UPDATED for 2022!!]

Instead of ogling shoes this week (…I KNOW!), I’m going to take a quick moment to enjoy some underwear.

Specifically, retro-styled underwear that could go awesome under a vintage-influenced dress. We’re talking high-waisted, low-hipped, and all awesome.

rooks alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

What bridal magazines can do to ANYONE

How does this video only have 75 views? We don’t normally share sketch videos, but this one is about about how, sometimes, guys can get way more sentimental about wedding planning than girls. Give the video two minutes, and behold the full-frontal mind-fuck that bridal magazines can pull on ANYONE. “Ooh, this one looks like a grotto! Like a magical fairy mermaid grotto…”

minted enter to win alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Save The Date designs that people will hang on their fridges in perpetuity (+$250 Minted giveaway!)

We’ve been talking a lot lately about Save The Date cards… three things you need to include, when to send them, whether you need to do them at all. But what about the simple pleasures of gawking at some designs? That my friends I’m here to do today… and when we’re done, I have the details about how you could enter to win $300 from Minted.com toward ANY of these designs.

privacy wedding website alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How can I make sure my wedding website won’t show up on Google?

For professional reasons, my sweetheart and I want to make sure that personal pictures, info, contact emails or numbers, etc. do not pop up when someone Googles our names. We want to make a wedding website to help guests with planning a trip to our location and for RSVPing, but we’re concerned about the possibility of the site showing up in searches.

I know some sites have a password-protection option. Will this be enough to keep people from finding the website through searches? If not, what else can we do to keep people from finding the site?