J. Von Stratton wedding dresses, inspired by glamorous drag queens and burlesque performers

For those who’ve been following my adventures on the Lovesick Expo tour this winter, you’ve probably been like “WTF is up with all those sequined dresses?!” Well, I will tell you what’s up with them: J. Von Stratton is up with them, that’s what.

Now I’m stoked to announced that J. Von Stratton has a line of wedding dresses, perfectly combining the show queen aesthetics (sequins! mermaid sillouettes! heart-shaped cut-outs!) with wedding-ready realness…

Fuck Weddings? Why we have confusing feels about wedding snark

We recently got an email from a reader about her website, called Fuck Weddings. That feels like something we should like. We love have a good sense of humor about ourselves and about weddings. All of us planning weddings need a bit more humor and lols in our lives, right? A good skewering can be good for everyone! At the same time, we’re a bit torn about wedding comedy that feels mean-spirited…

7 ways to make a wedding website guests will ACTUALLY use

I’m pretty sure here in 2020, we all know why wedding websites (aka “wedsites“) are so awesome. Printed invitations can only hold so much information, and it makes things easier for your guests when you’ve got a personalized website to tell them everything they need to know …

But how to get your guests to ACTUALLY read your wedding website?

OPEN THREAD: How do you deal with wedding dress regret?

I’m a bride to be in about six weeks. I bought a dress, and was told by one person the dress wasn’t for me, so I exchanged it for a different dress… But now I’m not sure. Do you have any articles on wedding dress regret and making the best of the dress you’ve got?

TSA hates sequins: lessons learned at NY & Philadelphia Lovesick Expos

This weekend was the kickoff of the 2016 season of our Lovesick Expo, and it started with a bang (and a gag!) in New York on Saturday, and then Philadelphia on Sunday. I flew out for both shows, and over the course of the two days, met almost 800 people including some faaaabulous Offbeat Bride readers. I also learned a few things that I want to share… like why TSA hates sequins.

9 years of Offbeat Bride: we won (and why we’re done being special snowflakes)

January 1st, 2016 was Offbeat Bride’s ninth anniversary! That is a hell of a long time to be doing anything, and it’s especially a long time to be publishing a website. And yet here we are: nine years later! Still kicking! Still cheerleading! Still celebrating.

Things HAVE changed though, and we want to hear from you about it…