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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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Kara & John’s “Taste the Rainbow” candy-colored wedding

Skittles aisle decorations, candy-themed table names, and a candy colored dress? Sounds like a nom-worthy party. This bride pulled a switcheroo on her guests by showing up in a demure white gown and then shocking them all with her wildly colored gown at the ceremony.

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Jennifer & Dean’s horror movie macabre wedding

Chocolate blood drips from the cake, horror movie villains hang from the trees, a bride and groom smooch under it all. Horror movie weddings make my gruesome, slasher flick day! Check out these scary cuties getting hitched horror-style.

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Rebecca & Andrew’s kid-friendly country farm museum wedding

A country oasis in Rhode Island is where the bride spent many summers and now it’s where she married her man. Kids ran free, farm animals entertained, and a burlesque entertainer named Miss Cherry Delight sang for all. Grab a spiked frozen lemonade and read on.

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Heidi & Ed’s artichoke and asparagus-themed handmade wedding

This couple find winter zen with their veggie-themed shindig in an opera house turned roller rink turned venue. The crafty bride DIYed the place into submission until it fit her needs. See these bespectacled cuties get hitched.