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Wedding Planning 101

You’ve just gotten engaged and don’t know where to start. Here are some wedding planning basics to get you started in planning your alternative wedding with Offbeat Wed!

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13 ways to make a wedding reception more fun – zones, props, and tattoos!

If you’re stressing about ways to make your reception as fun as it can be, we hear you. Any wedding planner can tell you that party planning is an art all about timing, finesse, and lots of food. Here are 15 of our favorite ways to make a reception more fun including games, zones, selfies, lots of creative eating and drinking opportunities, and whetting the appetite for late night surprises.

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Cover your ass and save some cash with these honeymoon planning tips

All stressed-up from wedding planning? Maybe take a breather and plan the honeymoon for awhile instead (if you’re taking one, of course). Here are our honeymoon planning tips to save money, save time, and save your ass, because, seriously, planning a vacation shouldn’t make you NEED a vacation, right?

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Don’t forget to ask these 9 super important wedding photographer questions

If you’re looking for a professional photographer who knows their stuff and will rock your emotional socks when you see the end result, your first stop is our Offbeat Bride Vendor Guide. Once you’ve narrowed down your options for a photography vendor, you’ll want to get your list o’ questions going — and it’s a pretty important set of questions. Let’s talk shop about what to ask your potential wedding photographer.

Wedding weekend tips by @offbeatbride

10 must-have tips for a wedding weekend or multi-day wedding

We get to see a lot of wedding weekends and multi-day weddings on the blog, so we love to see how couples handle their camping weddings, multi-day Indian weddings, safari weddings, and festival-style weekend-long epic parties. Here are 10 tips for a wedding weekend to make sure your guests (and you!) stay informed, entertained, happy, well-fed, and well-rested during your multi-day bash.