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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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Terri & Sebastian’s spontaneous, intimate European elopement

Terri and Sebastian ditched all the traditional wedding accoutrements for their Spain elopement, and instead treated the day like a fabulous photo shoot. Wait till you see the photos!

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Michele & Stuart’s splendiferous, Scottish shindig

Michele and Stuart, who introduced us to post-it note STDs and some bad ass custom matches, also created their own graphic logo for their wedding … and that’s just the tip of their creative wedding iceberg!

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Alison & Matt’s Icelandic wedding & Philadelphia library reception

Instead of a cake cutting, we had gingerbread versions of ourselves and bit off each other’s heads.

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Chantal & Sean’s dark red and black, rock ‘n roll marriage party

We decided to do our own take on tradition. We didn’t want to eliminate traditions all together just because we didn’t believe in them, we wanted to show how we could interpret them in our own unique way.

We were together for ten years already and didn’t want it to be all about us getting married. We wanted it to be more of a celebration of the relationship we already had and are planning on continuing.

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Mariesa & Gary’s TV geek wedding (with a broken foot)

Not even a broken foot and a VERY large walking cast could stop Mariesa from marrying her fellow TV geek Gary. See how they pulled it off this TV-themed wedding and looked great doing it.

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Alyssa & Brian’s dark and romantic vegan wine country wedding

You might recognize these two from when when we showed off their sexy, gothy wedding porn a few months ago. Well here’s the whole story on this vegan winery wedding. The offbeat bride: Alyssa, Crafty Concierge Her offbeat partner: Brian, photographer Location & date of wedding: Alexander Valley Hall, Geyserville, CA — October 3, 2009 […]