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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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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 […]

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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.

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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?  

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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.