Category Archive

Philosophizing

How do you feel about your wedding? What does it all mean? How does wedding planning a metaphor for the rest of your life?

4224566886 db0abae9aa o1 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Spokane couple aims to recycle 400,000 cans to pay for their wedding

Andrea and Pete are combining two different kinds of awesome into one fabulous wedding: they’re trying to pay for their low-budget summer 2010 wedding by recycling 400,000 aluminum cans. In a move that it’s both uber-eco-friendly as well as budget minded, they’re scouring their city of Spokane, WA to find cans to recycle. I cornered […]

wedding terrarium alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Cool stuff does not cease to exist just because it doesn’t make it into my wedding

You can’t have five dresses. You can’t use five different photographers. You can’t get married in five different locations. (Okay, some of you may be able to. I can’t. Budget, budget, budget.)

753683372 8236a2db4c z alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

What does being a bride feel like?

“So, what do you do if you don’t FEEL like a bride? I don’t know what to do; I want my man (I’m madly, head over heels in love), I want a wedding (I love parties and I love planning), but I just haven’t felt like a bride…”

14976067481 05b060cf05 b alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Why I worry when people say they want a “unique” wedding (let’s talk about authenticity vs. attention)

“We’re thinking of having all our parents walk us down the aisle together,” you say to a friend, and then watch for a smile or a twitch of the eyelid. Did that smile mean they like it? Or did it mean they’re just being nice? Shit, I can’t tell! Now I think I’m going to have an anxiety vomit all over the floor!

16602896070 bdd373605b c alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Construction is always more difficult than demolition

I don’t really care about what you DON’T want at your wedding. It’s easy to point at things other people have done and shout No! No! No!. But you know what’s much harder? Creating what you want.

2687347728 15ed9d4d25 o alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Wedding overload: When to stop looking at wedding inspiration

If lusting after some fantasy of what you COULD have starts to interfere with the reality of enjoying what you’ve ACTUALLY got… it’s time to stop looking at wedding photos.