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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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This Mario Brothers “mystery cube” ring will level-up your wedding day

You know we love custom-made nerdy rings. See: the D20 engagement ring, and the Golden Snitch ring. So we’re jumping up and down with excitement over this mystery cube wedding band!

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WTF is an STD: Offbeat Bride’s glossary to wedding acronyms and phrases

If you’re new to the wedding planning, there may be some terms you don’t know. Or are you wondering why your engaged friend keeps talking about their STDs? It’s not even the acronyms that can be confusing — the wedding planning lexicon is a strange beast. Here’s a list of stuff that gets mentioned a lot in the wedding industry.

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This year’s hottest wedding trend: fighting back against “Pinterest-perfection”

Once a week or so, I’ll get an interview request from a journalist — and inevitably one of the questions they want to ask is “What are your trend predictions for next year?” I usually hedge these questions with a positive spin like, “Hopefully, a reduction in fear-based marketing” or “Less body-shaming directed at brides under the guise of beauty,” but this year I have a bigger prediction:

That couples are going to start pushing back against the idea of “Pinterest-perfect” weddings.

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Fuck off, I’m eating: foibles, feats, and wedding fails

We asked some of our favorite wedding vendors to reveal some of their funniest moments, lessons learned, and biggest foibles from their their weddings. Get ready for determined eating, surprise guest photo bombers, and birds pooping… because we all know that shit (sometimes literally) happens.