The backyard is the new ballroom: Offbeat Bride on simple weddings in the New York Times

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg got married with that really awesome, relatively simple backyard wedding a couple months back? Well, the New York Times ran an article this weekend about that fits into the growing trend of simple weddings, and we were featured…

5 clever ways to tell guests your wedding dress code

So you want to tell your guests what to wear, but you don’t want to be overbearing, and ideally you’d like to be a little bit clever about it. You’re certainly not the first to find ways to artfully explain a dress code to your guests (we have a whole tag archive of posts about wedding dress codes!). Let’s review five awesome, non-bossy ways you can give your guests some dress code guidance.

The Onion skewers us: Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding To Reflect Their Personalities

This is the most awesome satire of offbeat wedding trends since Portlandia’s “Cool Wedding”:

Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding To Reflect Their Personalities.

Yes, it’s mean-spirited as hell, but I think we can all recognize ourselves in there and laugh at our own ridiculousness.

Apples skewered on bare branches + purple calla lilies = tablescape that will haunt your dreams

Remember how I went to Puerto Rico last month, and toured a bunch of amazing wedding and honeymoon venues? Well, one of the spots we toured was the Ritz-Carlton San Juan, where they did it UP for a dinner for all of us journalists. This amazing tablescape greeted me when I walked in the dining room… yes, those are green apples skewered on bare branches, surrounded by purple calla lilies and moss balls.

I was all HOLY FUCK, OFFBEAT BRIDES ARE GOING TO DIE. You have to see more.