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Sandee & Ty’s weird California winery wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Sandee, Office Manager and mother to the coolest pup around (and OBT member “Sandee“) Her Offbeat Partner: Ty, Electrical Engineer Location & date of wedding: Eagle Castle Winery, Paso Robles, CA. It is a vineyard and winery with an old world castle theme, complete with moat! — September 20, 2008 What made […]

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Connie & Jamie’s windy, nautical, owl-themed Scottish isle shindig

The Offbeat Bride: Connie, Charity Worker Her Offbeat Partner: Jamie, Admin Worker Location & date of wedding: Isle of Seil, Argyll, Scotland, UK — 27th June 2009 (and OBT member “Connikins“) What made our wedding offbeat: Connie’s from a wee island in the Inner Hebrides, where her family has a beautiful farm right by the […]

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Cass & Liam’s Glam, Goth Wedding in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building

Everything looked normal at a glance but when you had a second look you could see the quirks, like… inside the oh-so-elegant and grown-up looking guest gifts was something that can only be described as a “little kids party bag.” Or we had actually spray painted the flowers in my very traditionally shaped bridal bouquet to have black edging.

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Sophie & Derik’s Canadian Thanksgiving Elopement

“What I loved about my wedding was that there was absolutely no “show” aspect to it. I’m a very shy person and I’m always feeling awkward at big parties, so I knew for sure that the best day of my life couldn’t be one of those.”

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Jessica & Lorien’s Oliver Stone meets David Lynch fantasy wedding

The offbeat bride: Jessica Her offbeat partner: Lorien, CEO of Pingg.com Location & date of wedding: Wedding in Nevada desert, party in NYC loft — 10/3/09 wedding; 10/24/09 party What made our wedding offbeat: Never a traditionalist. Always a rebel (unless it turns into a cliche). Terrified of weddings and every “walk down the aisle,” […]

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Kory & Ben’s Dia de los Dinosaurs Wedding

The offbeat bride: Kory Bingaman, illustrator and comic book artist Her offbeat partner: Ben Francka, writer and cook Location & date of wedding: Riverwalk Jazz Café, Ozark Missouri — September 19, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Neither of us were caught up on traditions or thoughts of “we have to do this because that’s […]