Celebrate ALL your relationships on your wedding anniversary

Each time our anniversary has come around I think about how much I love my husband, but also how much I love all of the people in my life. Because I’m grateful to have him, but it also makes me think how full of gratitude I am to have people who wanted to help us have a great wedding when they could have just gone home.

Your fave Minted invitation designs (plus a $300 giveaway!)

Ooh, it’s that time again! That slightly creepy time where I look deep into the bowels of my affiliate sales reports to see which Minted.com invitation designs y’all are loving the most. For those of you just joining us, here’s how it works: when you buy something from Minted.com after clicking a link on Offbeat Bride, I can see what you buy. I can’t see WHO buys what (your secrets are safe!), but I can see which stuff is the most popular with my readers. This is kind of awesome because y’all have great taste.

As we head into the planning season for 2013’s winter and spring weddings, let’s take a peek at the invitation designs that are getting Offbeat Brides the most excited right now. PLUS, as an added bonus, I’ve got info from Minted about how you can enter to win $300 worth of FREE invitations.

Bridethulhu is the new Bridezilla

We’re totally sick of the term Bridezilla, but there’s no denying that as you grind your way through wedding planning, it can be helpful to have a term for that rage-filled, insane creature that bubbles up in your mind at times.

And now, courtesy of Offbeat Bride Tribe member ladyphae and her fiance, we finally have our new term…

Wedding weight loss: fighting pressure to lose weight for your wedding

All of my anxieties about my mother scrutinizing my weight all through the engagement process (“No wedding dresses are going to look attractive on you if you don’t lose a good 40 pounds!”) makes me almost not want to get married at all. How do I deal with it? How do I tell her to back off without pissing her off or giving her a brush-off answer?