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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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Laura Beth & Jesse’s spontaneous fun-filled elopement and “drunch” wedding

Playgrounds, aquariums, ski lifts, a creek, and some quesadillas. Sounds like a killer day. But add in the sweetest elopement to that day and it’s a whole lot more awesome. There’s a video — you don’t want to miss it. Seriously.

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Elle & Ben’s magical faery underground cave wedding

Fairy lights in an underground cave set a pretty magical tone for this epic wedding straight out of a fantasy tale. A toadstool cake and lots of Metallica complete the eclectic day for all us fantasy geeks at heart.

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Christa & Michael’s potluck pig roast farm wedding

Scottish influences + potluck reception during the busy season = a rowdy, rockin’ farm wedding! Most people pay top dollar for a local, custom menu, but these two have it at their (hard-working) fingertips.

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Miriam & Zachary’s Casablanca-inspired Old Hollywood wedding

Met in Israel, love Middle Eastern culture, love Old Hollywood… it’s the perfect recipe for a Casablanca-themed party. These two managed to combine Jewish traditions with their own DIY-infused style after a budget crisis shook everything up.