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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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Chrissy & Danny’s double wedding (part two): victorian, british countryside, high-tea wedding

We showed you the first part of Chrissy & Danny’s mind-blowingly gorgeous double wedding in Thailand. Now here is the scoop on their second wedding at a hotel in London. In typical London fashion it was filled with high-tea and croquet.

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Chrissy & Danny’s double wedding (part one): thaitastic, tropical monk fest

We had two weddings. One in Thailand, one in London. This is the story behind our Thailand wedding.

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Ailea & Marshall’s Tex-Mex lakeside boho wedding

Ailea & Marshall wanted a wedding that reflected who they are, their love of the outdoors, Ailea’s Tex-Mex heritage, Marshall’s disdain for shoes and ties, and their love of candy, alcohol, good food, and dancing. What they ended up with was a flip-flop friendly wedding fiesta!

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Our Californian / Honduran wedding was a fuchsia family laugh-fest

We had a Lasso Ceremony which was new for my family, but common in Latin American Catholic weddings. The lasso is a large, double looped rosary, which is placed over the shoulders of the couple after their vows. A prayer is said about how the lasso represents two parts bound together while sharing equally in the responsibilities of the marriage.

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Serena & Chris’s pirates-meets-renfest forest wedding

Serena & Chris based the the theme of their wedding around what they wanted to wear. Serena didn’t want a traditional white dress. She wanted a dark green fairy looking dress and Chris did not want to be stuck in a penguin suit. So they designed their wedding around their ideal outfits.

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Sarah & Todd’s 1930’s, travel-themed, wine box wedding

Religion is very important to Sarah & Todd. But that didn’t mean they couldn’t make a few changes to their traditional ceremony, like adding the “wine box unity ceremony” into their modern-vintage travel themed wedding.