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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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Sari & Thomas’ elegantly gothic Halloween wedding

Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. Today it’s an elegantly gothic affair with touches of Tim Burton, antiques, and Edgar Allan Poe. PLUS: little flower witches!

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Nicole & Damien’s gothic handfasting Halloween party

Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. Today it’s gothic style and awesome costumes including a giant banana (if you know what I mean… wait, that’s not what I mean).

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Evelyn & Nathan’s quirky Humanist wedding in an Irish castle

Check it: an Irish castle with a ceremony space that looks like it’s made of ice, a bar reception with vegan options and an offbeat coordinator, and a Humanist ceremony with “Everything I Need to Know I Learned From My Dog.” Oh wait, there’s also a top hat-wearing stilt walker greeting guests and a giant pink bus for guest transportation. See it now!

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Angel & Candi’s self-catered vegetarian wedding

Gothic and sarcastic weds bubbles and sunshine, and it’s not without its challenges. But these two ladies manage to pull together a self-catered vegetarian feast in a colorful space all on a budget, because one is crafty and the other can cook! It sounds like a match to me.