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We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to simple and small weddings. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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This lesbian couple met in Texas and had a waterfall wedding in Iceland

Leslie moved with Lexie to California. Lexie proposed to Leslie at the Orange County fairgrounds with the help of family and friends. When they were discussing wedding plans, Lexie said “wouldn’t it be crazy if we just eloped in Iceland?!”, Leslie said that was the best idea and the planning began!

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Love long and prosper: a lesbian Star Trek wedding in Central Park

We both have a profound love of Star Trek, so our officiant seamlessly tied in quotes and trivia into our vows to represent that love. Our guests were the two people we’d met at a Star Trek convention, the very same one where the two of us had first met!

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A big gay summer camp wedding in Wisconsin

Do you ever think back on summer camp and wish it had been gayer? If so, you’re not the only one… Offbeat couple Katie and Erin made their gay summer camp fantasies a reality with this outdoor queer camp wedding. Their day hit that summer camp nostalgia in the best way.

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This wedding vow renewal ceremony is radiating queer joy

We know that 25 years of marriage is a big deal for any couple, but for Amber and Rachel, it’s a true testament to growing together. When they got married 25 years ago, Amber and Rachel were celebrated as a cis-het couple. Since then, they’ve both come into their queerness, including Amber coming out as trans. They wanted to mark this huge milestone of 25 years with a queer wedding vow renewal ceremony, as their authentic selves, surrounded by their community.

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We’re in love with the crochet wedding dress at this DIY backyard wedding

This is how you do a DIY backyard wedding! Alex and I were together seven years, madly in love and always knew we’d get married. We kept waiting… for the right place, the right time in our lives, and mostly to have enough money. Eventually we gave up: let’s just do it. In his relative’s giant backyard, with 125 guests, and all homemade decorations.

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Enter this sci-fi wedding with an elegant black wedding dress

Are you ready to enter this Twilight Zone wedding? Charlene and Brandon’s sci-fi wedding in Miami might literally take you into another universe! This elegant black and white wedding might just be outshined by the bride’s two epic custom-made black wedding dresses. Royal would be an absolute understatement to describe these black wedding dresses. Ready to dive into the twilight zone and see this incredible sci-fi wedding?