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Offbeat grooms

Oh, we LOVES us some grooms and we have all sorts of advice from and for them. We love grooms with beards, we love gay grooms, we love grooms in tuxedo alternatives, we love grooms who don’t identify as men, we love ALL THE MASC MARRIED FOLKS!

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We NEED to see someone get married in one of these wild suits

Grooms and dapper brides take note: these patterned, geeky, and short suits are making our lives. We’re so jonesing to see someone rock one of these suits at a wedding. Wild suit brand OppoSuits has an array of patterned suits, short summer suits, and ultra colorful suits to match anyone willing to stray from that basic black suit. And by stray, we mean really stray. But hey, it’s your one chance to look as rad as you like… do it! Let’s peek (and pun!) at some of their seriously awesome, seriously weird, and just plain kick-ass suits.

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Judgment, money, and freak-outs: how this groom helped his partner find a wedding dress

Offbeat grooms (and anyone with a partner who wear dresses): this one’s for you. Here’s an excerpt from Rick Webb’s new book, Man Nup: A Groom’s Guide to Heroic Wedding Planning, which tackles the issues of grooms navigating the murky waters of their partner’s dress shopping. Let’s talk about the interplay of grooms and wedding dresses.

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Offbeat wedding styles for grooms and other masculine folks

We luv us some offbeat fashion, and the fellas out there cannot be left out of the equation. I’ve rounded up 22 truly inspiring, high-tone looks from our groom gear tag. Browse to your heart’s content and witness everything from kilts to zoot suits to kimono — this is serious wedding style for grooms and other masculine folks.

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I’m a frustrated groom who feels pushed out of planning my wedding

It’s funny how my future in-laws offering to contribute to my wedding ends up with me, the groom-to-be, feeling pushed out of the wedding planning equation. I will be lucky if I know even 20 percent of the people at our wedding. You know what? That makes me the weird creepy guy sitting in the corner that nobody knows at my own wedding.

Well, I can tell you that I did NOT want to be “that guy,” or that groom rather… yet here I am. I feel like it’s time to sink ever so slowly into the background of my own wedding.