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Real Weddings: Midwest US

There are some people who think offbeat weddings don’t happen in the fly-over states. These people will be surprised. Behold a few of our favorite weddings from the Midwest including Chicago weddings, Iowa weddings, Ohio weddings, Michigan weddings, and more. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Mery & Kris’s blacklight, Beatles wedding

What happens when you make your entire wedding glow under black lights? Read about Mery & Kris’s crazy colorful, black light, Beatles wedding to find out!

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Liz & Kevin’s handmade, well-armed wedding party of adventurers

Rainbow socks? Check. Swords? Check. Post-wedding hair cut? Check. Life-size cut out of groomsman walked down the aisle by the bridesman? Hell to the yes!

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Saleha & Greg’s feminist, museum, dance party wedding

How can you not want to know EVERYTHING about a wedding that involves a father-daughter merengue to a song titled “I Wish it Would Rain Coffee”??

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Alissa & Eric’s post-punk playground party wedding

Alissa proposed to Eric and they had a Jewish ceremony at the request of Alissa’s mother. The wedding site had a ball pit and a hidden, full-size helicopter. Read on and find the helicopter!