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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.

How to transport your wedding dress as seen on @offbeatbride

Flying dresses: how to transport your wedding dress via land or air

We recently received this critical question about how to transport your wedding dress to a destination wedding, in this case, to Las Vegas: “>I am wondering about tips to get my dress and my partner’s suit to Vegas safely. We are going to a Tough Mudder event and have a fair amount of gear as it is. Any help would be amazing!” Here’s how we’d handle it in a few different scenarios.

Wedding music checklist as seen on @offbeatbride

Your wedding music checklist and 7 planning tips to make it dead easy

Planning out the wedding music has always been top-of-mind for me, I think because it’s so vital in setting the mood. A lot of offbeat couples approach it casually and either set up playlists for each part of the day or allow a DJ to run with it. If you’re planning on taking more control of the music, these are the tips you’ll need to make sure your wedding day is rocking in all the right ways.

Wedding seating chart tips from @offbeatbride

9 wedding seating chart tips for less conflict and maximum fun

Ready to plan out your wedding seating chart? Before you start, don’t forget that you can always go sans assign seats and let guests choose their own. Yep, it’s a thing. But if you need to make sure that volatile family members are seated away from each other, want to help your introvert guests find a pal with whom to chat, or want your single friends to meet your other single friends for some hooking up, these wedding seating chart tips are for you.

Let nongeeks in on the jokes with your geeky wedding program

Let non-geeks in on the jokes with your geeky wedding program

I hate (like reeeeeeaaaaally don’t like) being on the outside of an inside joke. So I am in total love with how Karen and Terry let their non-geek guests know what was up at their geeky wedding. They drafted up a super informative geeky wedding program, with short and sweet blurbs explaining just what steampunk meant anyway and yes, the Discworld really is flat…