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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 & Gosia’s Beautiful & Fun, All-Bride, All-Dress Wedding

“We couldn’t agree who had to change her last name, so we played a Name Change Soccer Game the afternoon before the wedding with our guests, and the winner’s team got to pick our new last name.”

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Astrid & Kyle’s Seattle Boat Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Astrid, Biology Student and Retail Princess (and OBT member “Astrid“) Her Offbeat Partner: Kyle, Network Analyst and Professional Napper Location & date of wedding: The Virginia V, Seattle, WA — July 24, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding wasn’t super offbeat, but it was authentically us. We left out all […]

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Jenell & Joe’s sassy & informal Phoenix arts district wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Jenell – Interior Designer (commercial), and OBT member “Jenell” Her Offbeat Partner: Joe – Marketing Content Writer/Editor Location & date of wedding: The Paisley Violin Cafe, Phoenix AZ What made our wedding offbeat: We decided to keep our wedding small, personal, and inexpensive and save some money for a really nice honeymoon […]

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Sheva & Jared’s dark, elegant wedding with a twist of tacky Halloween fun

Offbeat Bride: Sheva, Hairstylist Her Offbeat Partner: Jared, Cad specialist Location & date of wedding: Castle on the Hudson, Tarrytown, NY — October 31st, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Jared and I hate the traditional, and dread going to weddings. We decided to throw a huge bash on our favorite holiday, Halloween. To ensure […]