Our Unceremonious Ceremony: yes, you can improvise wedding vows!
I scrawled some vows on notepaper the morning of the wedding, and my partner 100% winged it in the moment. I’m sharing these really just to reiterate what Offbeat Bride is all about: I hope you get to do whatever you want on your day.
That’s what happens when you forget your vows: Honest wedding vow examples from real people
Over the past 12 years, we’ve featured some of the most unique and offbeat weddings on the web, and we love adding to massive archive of vow examples examples. That in mind, we’ve got two new examples to share with you today, the first of which was completely ad libbed!
Authentic, realistic wedding vows recognizing the shadow self
“I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labour has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you…”
Hearts are full after seeing the family candy jar ceremony at this Paris vow renewal
This was the vow renewal dream come true for Mehek and Lokesh who, seven years earlier, had a very traditional Indian wedding. They said they felt like they were living their own Bollywood dream by renewing their vows in Paris. You’ll definitely want to see the bright pink details and a fabulously detailed bouquet. They toasted with rosé champagne and ate cake on the Champ de Mars after the ceremony.
This wedding was a sci-fi lover’s ceremony and cryptid creatures with a dose of boho in the desert
A sci fi lover's ceremony and mythical/cryptid creatures with a dose of boho in the desert! Since Victor proposed in a redwood forest after we visited the Bigfoot Museum in Santa Cruz, we kept the cryptid creature theme going for our wedding. Our save-the-date paid homage to X-files, UFOs, and the elusive Sasquatch. Our quirky wedding suite reflects our love not only for Joshua Tree but for all things mythical and paranormal.
First comes baby then comes marriage: our favorite parent couples who got hitched
“I got divorced a couple of years back and am partnered again planning a wedding for Halloween 2020. However, we decided to do the whole kid thing beforehand and will hopefully have a little one at our wedding by then. I’m looking for advice/examples of bad-ass families who married post-baby. I’m having a hard time finding anything.” Hell yes we have examples! Come and see…