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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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Adele & John’s anachronistic Victorian World’s Fair wedding

When the first dance is actually a Rock Band duet, you know you’re in for a treat. These two found a way to combine Neo-Victorian style with all of their “interests, obsessions, and pretensions” and have it all somehow make sense. The centerpieces don’t bite (I think), so come on in and explore.

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Layne & Daniel’s multi-traditional arboreal wedding

Celebrating the many traditions that bind couples together, this nature-loving couple wed under the trees and partied under a shower of sparklers. They also rocked a bio-Benz and brought all their guests together for a giant circle dance to “Rainbow Connection.”

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Tracey & Michael’s steampunk Venetian masquerade wedding

When it comes to Venetian versus steampunk, why pick one or the other? This couple went all out for a masquerade wedding in an art gallery. Inquire within for fire dancers, Dr.Suess vows, and a Mad Libs guest book.

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A geeky elegant dinosaur museum wedding at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

When some fossilized friends make their way to the ceremony, you’re in for a Jurassic-sized party. This couple even had to hire a bounty hunter to protect their uber intricate Millennium Falcon cake. That’s right, we’ve got Star Wars, dinosaurs, and the coolest mix of geek and chic this side of an ice age.