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When we want to get more thoughtful, this is the spot for our feature articles. Sometimes we talk big-picture philosophies, other times we discuss wedding trends, and every once and a while we just go ape-shit over a wedding WTF?!

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My favorite book review

“It might have been the humanure essay, or possibly your wholehearted cheering of penis-cake eating as a married couple… whatever the reason, your book took a relatively crappy day in Iraq and made it fantastic. Yeah, I said Iraq…”

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How to get a lower budget hotel wedding

Jezebel recently did a post addressing how wedding costs can add up (In The Long Run, Your Wedding Could Cost You Big Time), and while the post itself is somewhat interesting, I was completely taken by a comment posted by a user named geekgirlliz, who caters weddings. Here were geekgirlliz’s excellent tips on how to […]

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Reader Survey results, Part 2

So first, how about some more cold hard facts from the 2010 reader survey? Y’all are social media geeks! 40% of you have a blog and 40% of you use twitter. 20% of you use our Facebook fan page to follow Offbeat Bride updates, and 20% of you use RSS. You’re mostly urban, with two […]

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Reader Survey results, Part 1

Almost 2500 of you took my 2010 Reader Survey in January, and I figured I’d say thank you by sharing some of the results. First, the nitty gritty: Unsurprisingly, 98% of you are women, with 1% each identifying as male or transgender (Aside: big thanks to the reader who suggested I add “Neither/Both” as a […]