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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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Melissa’s rainy rural wedding with the biggest bonfire evar!

I’m trying to get caught up on my backlog of bride profiles — so this week it’s wall-to-wall wedding porn for y’all. Enjoy! The offbeat bride: Melissa, Student My offbeat groom: Jon, Student/Retail Location & date of wedding: Jon’s Parent’s HUGE yard in rural Manitoba, Canada. June 23, 2007 What made our wedding offbeat: Our […]

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The Pixels’ Seattle wedding

The offbeat bride: Ingo Pixel, Makeup Artist My offbeat groom: Andy Pixel, Software Developer Location & date of wedding: 7/14/07. Henry Art Gallery and Twilight Exit, Seattle. What made our wedding offbeat: We tried everything we could to stay away from traditional wedding vendors and to involve our friends, family, and amazing network of talented […]

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Tina’s haunted house halloween wedding

It was love made in heaven, but a marriage made in Hell. What didn’t make this happy day offbeat? The theme of the wedding was “Love Never Dies” It was full moon, which we did not plan. The location was one of the big things — we were married in front of the Cemetery of a haunted house. We chose that location not only because we both work there, but because we fell in love there and it has become a huge part of our lives.

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Zandra’s cemetery wedding

The offbeat bride: Zandra, Art Director My offbeat groom: Jordan, Creative Director Location & date of wedding: Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC May 13th 2006 What made our wedding offbeat: We got married in a cemetery overlooking the ocean — it was beautiful. Our biggest challenge: Getting an approval for the ceremony by the city, […]

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Jesse’s New Orleans-influenced laid-back wedding

The offbeat bride: Jesse, Jewelry designer and style blogger My offbeat groom: Jamez, Restaurant manager and musician Location & date of wedding: March 2007 at the oldest Unitarian church in the South, the Unitarian Church of Charleston What made our wedding offbeat: The concept for our wedding was planned over drinks in a tapas bar […]

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Katie’s at-home Washington wedding

I think two things really set the tone for our offbeat wedding: 1.) Save the date magnets with ketchup and mustard bottles holding hands and smiling with, “some things just go together! Please save the date for our wedding” and 2.) A quote by Thornton Wilder on our (very lovely) invitations: “my advice to you, is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.”