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Don't miss the gold tutu dress at this forest festival wedding

Don’t miss the gilded gold tutu dress at this forest festival wedding

Anna and Zack celebrated their wedding with camping, costumes, fairy wings, and surrounded by nature and their loved ones. They dubbed it a “Union Festival” and invited their guests to join them for a full weekend of camping and dancing. Anna’s short gold dress shined like she was a warrior princess. Are you ready for this forest festival wedding?

We're fantasizing about this warrior meets fairy wedding

We’re fantasizing about this warriors meet fairies wedding

Lori and Josh planned their warriors meet fairies wedding with so much style. The story went as follows, “A mismatched group of warriors (the groomsmen) got lost in their travels during a storm and stumbled into the forest of the fairies (the wedding reception and ceremony). And the war chief fell in love with one of the fairies and so a wedding was called for.” With mismatched decor of clocks, water pitchers, bird cages, old books, and candelabras, they made a lovely setup for the makeshift wedding.

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Bubble guns and ribbon wands: a colorful playful wedding that will tickle your inner child

Colleen and David rocked so many killer ideas for their colorful playful wedding that we can barely fit it all in telling you about it. You’ll scroll through these photos writing down everything you see. First, the colors: tangerines, raspberries, corals with accent of aquas. It was definitely a playful vibe over super romantic and sacred.

Second, the decor: water tower table numbers from brown craft kits. Adorable. They held a crafting contest for best centerpiece decoration during dinner and had a table full of markers, googly eyes, and more. Don’t miss the handmade signs, 160 ribbon wands, and bubble guns. This one is a winner on all fronts, but especially for FUN. Let’s see it…

When a bride rolls up on a white horse (or how we LOVED this New Jersey farm wedding)

When a bride rolls up on a white horse (or how we LOVED this New Jersey farm wedding)

Justin and Lauren are from Qatar and came home to Justin’s family farm for their wedding. The whole farm was featured at the wedding from the rad altar the family made out of found wood, to the backyard cocktail party, and then the safari tented reception. Guests were ferried around on the back of a tractor and the paths were lit with string lights.

Keeping it weird (and amazing!) with these ladies' Austin-style wedding

Keeping it weird (and amazing!) with these ladies’ Austin-style wedding

Aly and Cece’s rocked a truly Austin-style wedding with multiple live music performers, local faves The Peached Tortilla catering, music-themed photo booth, and cornhole games played during cocktail hour. These two ladies kept it weird, Austin-style, and we can’t.get.enough.

The King officiated this retro Vegas wedding in a tiki bar

The King officiated this retro Vegas destination wedding in a tiki bar

Tasha and Martin live in Australia, but they trekked all the way out to Las Vegas for their rock ‘n’ roll Vegas destination wedding. Everyone headed to the oldest Tiki bar in Las Vegas, Frankie’s Tiki Room, a very cool, very dark, and intimate bar. The wedding was officiated by The King himself, naturally.