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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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A Halloween costume wedding with witches, vampires, and even a snail

This wasn’t just a wedding… it was a full-on halloween costume party with vows. Stevie and Clinton’s backyard transformed into a spooky wonderland where witches held broomstick bouquets, flower girls dressed as jack-o-lanterns, and the dance floor turned into a mash-up of Joe Exotic, a snail, and a mad scientist. If you’ve ever dreamed of saying “I do” in costume, this is your playbook.

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Kalleh ghand wedding: queer joy, Persian feast, underground beats

Sugar, honey, queer love! During Bobby + Kate’s kalleh ghand wedding ceremony, their family held a veil overhead and ground sugar cones together to shower sweetness into their marriage. Then they fed each other honey with their pinkies… because this love deserves to stay sticky-sweet forever.

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A woodland fairy wedding theme inspired by Lord of the Rings

Rachel and Nick’s woodland fairy wedding at The Maples Estate was blessed with a drizzly day that was just what the couple called for. Nick’s parents celebrated their wedding with rain, and it was so fitting for this Lord of the Rings loving couple to have drizzly, moody photos to match their ethereal, woodsy aesthetic.

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Bread and salt: a Polish wedding tradition meets lakeside DIY magic

Julia and Matthew ditched ballrooms for a woodland dock on the Lithuanian border, where vodka met pavlovas and parents greeted them with the bread and salt Polish wedding tradition. DJs turned newlyweds, they built a festival of campfires, pierogi, and sunrise dance floors. It wasn’t perfect, it was personal… and that’s what made it unforgettable.