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Use bookmarks as your escort cards alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Use bookmarks as your escort cards and have them double as favors

Emily and Phil’s book-loving wedding had a pretty sweet book tie-in: bookmark escort cards! Take your card, find your seat, and have a little keepsake to remind you of a kick-ass wedding while you’re reading. Plus, most printing venues offer this size, so DIYing it would be pretty easy, if you were game.

custom fandom rings alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Rings gone adorkable: cute fandom rings

I’ve been scoping out rings and have been ultra inspired in a full-on geektastic way. Let’s start dreaming and scheming about fandom rings.

8 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Everyone is a bombshell: get heart eyes with these retro boudoir shots from Shameless Photography

You guys don’t even know how much we squeed when we saw these stunning pin-up boudoir photos from our sponsor, Shameless Photography. Let’s talk about why Shameless is the photography studio who will fully embrace your curves, your edges, and the specific beauty unique to you.

unity ceremony 2 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A unity ceremony with glass and 2100 degrees of heat: you’re going to want to see this

What if I told you that you can take a unity ceremony to a seriously higher level by crafting up your own custom, totally unique, and handcrafted piece of artwork derived from those ingredients in your unity ceremony that will last forever? Just choose your colored glass crystals, the style of sculpture you want, add 2100 degree molten crystal… and get ready to lose your shit. Let’s see how it’s done with our sponsor, Unity in Glass.

6tag 170814 175059 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Fuck off, I’m eating: foibles, feats, and wedding fails

We asked some of our favorite wedding vendors to reveal some of their funniest moments, lessons learned, and biggest foibles from their their weddings. Get ready for determined eating, surprise guest photo bombers, and birds pooping… because we all know that shit (sometimes literally) happens.

Fairy Tale Wedding Cake SMALL alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

4 reasons a Renaissance fest wedding will put the “huzzah!” in your wedding day

When I found out that we were partnering with the Scarborough Renaissance Festival in Waxahachie, TX, I knew my time had come. I get to talk about REN FEST WEDDINGS! I knew my fellow turkey leg-eating, corset-wearing, sword-wielding offbeat couples would join me in my joy. Let’s talk about all the ways a Renaissance fest wedding will make your wedding day the most epic, awe-inspiring, and time-traveling event ever.