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Wedding trends

While editing Offbeat wed, we look at thousands of weddings a year. Sometimes we notice trends — and sometimes we notice things that the mainstream wedding media SAYS are trends, that actually totally aren’t.

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Charitable weddings: Using your wedding for good

Over on Offbeat Home, two sisters, Amy and Mistie, wrote an awesome guest post on how you can use your powers — and parties — for good. This is an idea that’s near and dear to my heart as Aaron and I used our shark-themed wedding as a platform to raise awareness about shark finning. I also immediately thought of other offbeat weddings that have added a charitable element to their parties…

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Wedding Dress Thursdays (with or without guns) need to become a thing

Jehnua has a few extra wedding dresses that she got super cheap on Craigslist. One she’ll wear at her reception, another one she’ll turn into a zombie bride dress for the annual local Zombie Walk (obviously!). But what to do with the others…

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Supposed-wedding trend: “Global meats”

We received a press release about 2012 wedding trends — half of it was slightly interesting and the other half was just full of WTF-ery. Most notably this little gem…

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Behold these bridesmaids in white dresses

An Offbeat Bride reader emailed us about her idea to wear a colored wedding dress while her bridesmaids don white ones. She also expressed her exasperation when it came to finding photos of other brides who have pulled off this fabulous color switcharoo. So, I thought I’d round up a few of our favorite examples from offbeat weddings past that just might have you re-thinking your wedding dress colors.