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Sabrina’s Amazing Wedding Dress Paintings

I just discovered a fellow wedding blogger Sabrina and OBT member Blablover5‘s amazing talent for re-creating wedding dresses on canvas! It all started when she realized “the most expensive piece of clothing I have ever owned was sitting in the closet, I decided to create a painting of it.” And she did a phenomenal job. […]

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Corinne’s light-up, ornament, crochet bouquet

Offbeat Bride Tribe member Corinne inundated the tribe with some of the fabulous DIY projects that she and her fiance have been making for their wedding. We were really delighted by her twist on on Naomi’s ornament/lights bouquet. Corinne made it her own by adding some awesome crocheted flowers to the mix!     Thanks […]

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Jessica’s Handmade Deer Cake Topper

Tribesmaid Jessica81 made these deer cake toppers that are so adorable they make me want to puke, in a good way. Jessica writes, “The one with the excess flowers is ‘me’ and the one with the top hat is my darling future wife. 😉 It even turned out that her’s is a teensy taller than mine, just like real life… hee hee!”

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Adorable groom riding an elephant

The final post for Offbeat Bride’s “Elephun Elephant Day” is some adorable wedding porn taken by Megan, the offbeat intern… I was on location in the Pacific Palisades taking photos of a fellow Offbeat Bride’s wedding when we all heard this great commotion — yelling, cheering, tambourines, etc. — and when I checked it out […]

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Use vintage salt & pepper shakers as cake toppers

As part of “Elephun Elephant Day” I bring you OBT member Erika’s awesome elephant cake toppers! Emily wrote in her wedding planning update: My best friend Ebay led me to some sweet salt and pepper shakers, which I will use as my cake topper. I’m a collector of elephants and these are up my alley… […]

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Periodic Table Save The Dates!

I’m in love with these nerd-gasmic Periodic Table of the Element themed Save the Date’s that OBT member Stacy Rebek created.