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Wedding advice and etiquette can be a weird thing, especially when you’re talking about alternative and offbeat weddings. We pride ourselves on our compassionate focus on constructive, respectful communication and focus on conflict resolution.

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Wedding dresses you can breastfeed in: nursing mothers rejoice, we have a gigantic round-up just for YOU

All kinds of tops and dresses can are breastfeeding-friendly, especially once you get the hang of it. While I didn’t don a wedding or bridesmaid gown during my stint as a nursing mother, I did experiment with a variety of necklines to find out what was the easiest to maneuver my son around. You also want to wear something that can be folded back/pushed to the side pretty quickly — hungry babies are demanding!

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9 things you need to know if you want to DIY your wedding makeup

I’ll be doing my own rainbow makeup on my wedding day and thought that it might be nice to share a few of my handy DIY makeup tips with you all! Including tips on the few makeup “must haves,” nail polish tips, and how lighting will affect your final looks.

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The “faux-ficial” Bridesmaids’ Bill of Rights

I’m planning to officially ask my potential bridesmiads to be my maids of awesome/wedding goon squad/honor guard/etc. In the package I put together for them, I included this faux-official Bridesmaids’ Bill of Rights, both for a laugh and to assuage any nervousness.

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Your top 10 wedding invitations from Minted.com

I do this a couple times a year: I go peeking at the sales reports of what Offbeat Brides are buying from Minted so that I can see which wedding invitation designs you guys are loving. Why? Because you guys have fucking awesome taste, and I like to get inspired. So let’s take a look at the wedding invitations that are floating y’all’s boats this fall. Let’s count down the 10 most popular designs.