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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.

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Spend some time with Carolyn & Mike’s “Time in a Bottle”-themed wedding (with musical surprise!)

A custom gold gown, a gorgeous Chicago loft space, and a “Time in a Bottle” theme… this wedding is chic, luminous, and artfully planned by a bride who is one of our fave vendors! Come see the clock details, scream singing reception, personal music touches, and of course… a super special musical surprise for the groom at the ceremony that is a must-see.

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Let’s get soggy with Miranda & Joe’s wonderfully woodsy, rainy wedding

This is some gloomy chic, gorgeous Pacific Northwest rainy amazingness right here, folks. Moody, misty, and perfect. Let’s follow this couple through their two-mile hike for an elopement full of haikus, copper cups of bourbon, and the sweetest pooch covered in a blanket you’ll see today.

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Bethany & Brendan’s honeybee wedding on the farm with cows, chickens, and tears

These two B-named cuties decided to have a honeybee wedding on the sweetest little Minnesotan farm. Don’t miss the beehive piñata, honeystick favors, dad/daughter first look, and all the tears EVER. Everyone’s crying and we’re totally crying along with them. Oh, and check out the bride’s good luck heirloom dress, too.

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Christy & Patrick’s romantic gothic wedding

Let me just throw this out there: boob-grabbing wedding party photos and dads and grandpas with purple hair. Oh, that’s all it took? I knew we’d get ya. There are also grandmas in photo both costumes, colored hair extensions, and an epic post-ceremony selfie!

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Jess & George’s Hawaiian luau with a theatrical flair (co-starring hurricanes!)

A Playbill-style program, a lei ceremony by a force-of-nature officiant… and some actual forces of nature in the form of a hurricane and an earthquake — this ohana-focused wedding in Hawaii is nothing if not exciting. Don’t miss the kilts, the pineapple cake, the gorgeous guest book art piece, and all the luuurve.

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Sabrina & William’s DIY and donuts loft wedding

Don’t get too caught up drooling over the mountains of donuts in this wedding because there is a TON to see! Don’t miss the bride’s dress, her super cute short hairstyle and hairpiece, the magically gorgeous industrial loft venue, the gold and black chic decor, and the food truck fun.