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Real Offbeat Weddings

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.

surprise wedding alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Surprise! It’s Amanda & Robbie’s housewarming party turned wedding

If you’re having a bad day, have I got the balm for you. This surprise at-home wedding in Virginia is so full of tears, laughter, hilarious faces, and rockin’ dancing that you’ll be hard-pressed not to smile the entire time you read it. The guests came for a housewarming, but left glowing from a wedding. Sigh.

Brooch bouquet

Rach & Matty’s family union meets serendipitous venue wedding

With an amazing alternative to parent dances that got everyone involved, a lovely family unity ceremony, and kick-ass venues, this wedding was bound to make our day. Don’t miss the “gone weddin'” cupcakes, mismatched bridesmaids, handmade brooch bouquets, and amazing ring vows!

Pagan wedding gorgeousness

It’s all magical fairy lights and love at Dawn & Shannon’s pagan wedding

This bride is my plus size beacon of confidence and fabulousness. Please come read about her gorgeous pagan wedding to her sweet groom and be happy that this wedding exists. Don’t miss the feather shouldered dress, the body-posi amazingness, and the lovely, fairy-lit backyard backdrop to this wedding.

Hawk ring bearer

Zombies, Vikings, and a hawk: Shelley & Eric know funny weddings

with two comedy writers getting hitched, there’s bound to be hilarity in store. Get ready for a zombie processional (including the bride taking them down with an AX BOUQUET), a getaway GamerBUS full of consoles, a Viking sword exchange, a hawk ring bearer, and Chipotle catering. Plus, prepare for an amazing idea to collect money for your honeymoon or charity at the reception!

fall floral wedding

Katrina & Joshua fall florals in a vineyard wedding

This pair opted for some Trader Joe’s flowers at an ultra cheap price and somehow bagged the most gorgeous assortment of fall-colored blooms. But there’s more to see than just flowers. Check out the heirloom dress over which you’ll die of jealousy, dinosaur cake toppers, and ModCloth reception dress.

up boutonniere alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Check out the special guest stars at Rachel & Steven’s Disney and Up-themed wedding

Just wait until you see the Disney’s Up-themed details in this super-close-to-Disney wedding. Sky + balloons cake, grape soda boutonnieres, an Adventure Book, and lots of Disney-related songs, decor, and accessories make this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. You’ll also learn a pretty neat trick on having a Disney wedding without actually having to contract with Disney.