Authors behaving badly
Last year I was contacted by someone on Flickr who was collecting wedding photos for a book about the unseen wacky and wild sides of brides. They wanted to use this photo in the book. I was a little weirded out by the fact that they were building a book of photographs that they weren’t […]
Your wedding is not a contest
The dirty flip-side of “my wedding is too weird” is “my wedding isn’t weird enough.” Both sentiments make me sad because your wedding is not a contest.
Ariel from Offbeat Bride on Urban Rush
When I was in Vancouver a few weeks ago, I did an appearance on Urban Rush, a local magazine show. I think it was the best Offbeat Bride interview ever — especially since one of the hosts started muttering about shrooms at one point. WTF?
Sonya Naumann & The Thousand Dollar Dress
Sonya Nausmann is an Iowa City-based artist who’s working on a photography project chronicling 1000 women wearing her wedding gown, the titular Thousand Dollar Dress. Sonya’s photography is provocative, and her project offers a pointed commentary on women, marriage, and identity.