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Offbeat grooms

Oh, we LOVES us some grooms and we have all sorts of advice from and for them. We love grooms with beards, we love gay grooms, we love grooms in tuxedo alternatives, we love grooms who don’t identify as men, we love ALL THE MASC MARRIED FOLKS!

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Color & Stripes

Colorful bride + stripey groom? IT’S BENDED MY MIND! MY MIND IS BENDED! See more shots from Travis & Abby’s colorful and striped wedding below … and hopefully we’ll have the full scoop soon… PS: (“My mind, it is bended” reference is from this video.)

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The groom made the bride’s dress

Ladies, you see that adorable short wedding dress the bride Catherine is wearing? You see that adorable groom next to her? His name is Hans and he made Catherine’s dress. Seriously: he made his bride’s dress! That said, I noticed this little post on the groom’s blog: Number of dresses I’ve been asked to sew […]

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Aaron’s amazing green suit

I’ll have the full scoop on Christina & Aaron’s wedding for y’all next week, but for now I just wanted to post this picture and say that Aaron has made a statement on behalf of all offbeat grooms, that statement being “WHO SAYS A SUIT HAS TO BE FREAKING BORING!?” Even if a chartreuse silk […]

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Kale bouquet, skull vest, and red boots at this Chicago wedding

There are so many inspiring details packed into Olivia Leigh Photographie‘s photos of Sam & Ben’s November 2008 Chicago wedding … I’m not really sure where to start. But, let’s first look at the bride’s bouquet made from peacock feathers and kale. Then there’s the groom’s skull-emblazoned vest … impeccable: …and of course the bride’s […]