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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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Natalie & Joe’s stellar intimate ceremony and dinner

Natalie & Joe’s hand-crafted their wedding ceremony by drawing inspiration from pagan rituals. In addition their wedding theme was based around the Incubus song “Stellar.”

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Heidi & Phab’s Laos/Australian paper wedding in the clouds!

The fourth day on our fabulous plus size bride week takes us all the way to Australia. Where Heidi & Phab had a magical and mystical wedding in the clouds! -Coco The offbeat bride: Heidi – Cheetah Keeper and amateur actress Her offbeat partner: Phab – Town Planner and (would be!) entrepreneur Location & date […]

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Marisa & Patrick’s Pi day wedding in a science museum

Marisa & Patrick based the theme of their wedding entirely on the location. Since they are science/comic nerds the venue of their dreams turned out to be a science museum. So they held their ceremony in the planetarium and used science paraphernalia as decorations!

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Rachel & Tom’s Ultimate DIY Halloween Party with Nuptials

Rachel & Tom’s wedding doubled as a killer Halloween party: including eyeball sangria, sugar skulls, spider webs, and lots of hidden flasks.

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Michelle & Philip’s multicultural, 1930s wedding and tea ceremony

Michelle & Phillip had a multicultural wedding that took place in a 1930’s Art Deco theatre. But before all that they played Chinese Door games, where the aim is to make the groom and his men do challenges in order to prove himself worthy of the bride and a Tea Ceremony!

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April & David’s Benevolent and Affable Order of the Jackalope

April & David love theme parties so they used their wedding as an excuse to throw a party with a theme of, “The Lodge of the Jackalope,” a fraternal Lodge in the 1950’s. Without giving too much away the best moment was an improvised line from the “Grand Buck” during the exchanging of the Pez.