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Real Offbeat Weddings

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Corinne & Jesse’s Homemade Alice In Wonderland Zombie Wedding

Jesse and I don’t like to be the center of attention, and since we’ve been together for ten years, we decided to make our wedding as much fun as possible and not so much about us but more about our families and friends.

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Amy & Steve’s San Francisco Burner Double Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Amy, Web Marketing Manager Her Offbeat Partner: Steve, Paralegal Location & date of wedding: Stern Grove, San Francisco, CA — 06/27/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Brian and Helen, some of our best friends, were planning to get married around the same time. We came up with the brilliant idea to have […]

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Shablis & Devin’s Jaunty Homespun, Anachronist-Punk, Hodgepodge Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Shablis – Museum Security/ Receptionist (and OBT member “Shabs“) Her Offbeat Partner: Devin – Developmental Therapist Location & date of wedding: Avant Garden, Houston, TX — May 23,2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Friends and family helped with absolutely everything! Music, officiating, cooking, decorating, photography… everything! The best part about it was […]

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Jessica & Lantrel’s sweet & simple vow reaffirmation

The Offbeat Bride: Jessica – Sr. Office Assistant Her Offbeat Partner: Lantrel – Business Services Manager Location & date of wedding: Father of the bride’s backyard, Stockton, CA — 06/20/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: At the tender age of 18, my husband and I snuck to the county clerks office and tied the knot, […]

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Holly & Andrew’s Sailing Vacation & Island Party Wedding

I have alopecia and instead of wearing a wig to hide it, I rock the bald look (and he loves it). We met in 7th grade and started dating when we were 24. He proposed in front of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame while we were on motorcycles.

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Emily & Mark’s homemade Goat Farm, Native American, Albanian Orthodox, Love Fest

“We wanted everything to be as ‘green’ as possible, so we sat on hay-bales which were later fed to the goats.”