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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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Hello Kitty wedding

With theme weddings, both spouses need to be fully bought in — like the Star Wars wedding. The last thing you want is for your spouse to look like some sort of thematic afterthought. But the Hello Kitty groom is so obviously fully on-board with the wonderful silliness of this wedding, rocking his ruffled blue tux and oversized shades! It’s all just adorable.

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Getting your offbeat groom involved

This is an awesome opportunity for the two of you to sit down and reconstruct the whole “This is the bride’s special daaaaaay, and the groom is just an accessory” bullshit.

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Suit & Pumas

Yes, we’ve seen a lot of suits and converse on the gentlemen. But what about a stylin’ suit and a sweet pair of Pumas? Here’s a shot of a friend of mine rocking a Hugo Boss suit and a fly pair of sneakers. The look’s a bit less punk, a bit more Justin Timberlake. And […]

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Wedding wings for dudes big and small

I’m a longtime fan of wings in weddings, but usually it’s brides and flower girls wearing wings. It was so refreshing to see Fairylove‘s wedding gallery, which features several shots of a Hawaiian groom rocking his own set of wedding wings: The gallery also features what look like ring bearers and bridesmen wearing wings as […]