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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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Joey & Maxine’s lesbian, drumtastic, family and friends wedding fest

“We chose to throw caution to the wind and have the big white wedding many dream of – that however is where the traditional aspect ended!”

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Sarah & Adam’s chilled out, nature-bound Sunday wedding

Sarah & Adam had strong thoughts on marriage equality in their ceremony. So instead of taking a wedding and picking out the parts they didn’t like. They built their wedding from scratch.

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Heidi & Scott’s rustic, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

Heidi & Scott love DIY projects, so why should their wedding be any different? They did just about everything themselves, which resulted in a wonderful, butterfly themed, backyard wedding!

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Erika & Ben’s theatre performance wedding and cocktail party

Erika & Ben performed the story of their eight-year relationship on stage of their old high school auditorium which was concluded by their actual wedding ceremony.

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A backyard bbq multicultural wedding

Verity is Canadian and Lucky is Mexican so they drew on their combined cultures for inspiration and ideas. Also, they had a budget to consider so they had to stick to the necessities. Expensive tent? Yes. Expensive dress? No. Florist? No. Mariachi band? Hell yes!

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Rachel & David’s artsy retro picnic wedding

Although it unexpectedly rained on the day of Rachel & David’s wedding that didn’t stop them from having their picnic wedding. With a positive attitude and a surprise tent rental from friends the day turned out better than expected!