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Real Weddings: Southern US

There are some who say the South will rise again — and it’s true, if you’re talking about Southern nontraditional weddings! From Atlanta to Texas and North Carolina to Florida, we love our Southern offbeat couples. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

Tim Burton meets fire dancing at this twisted black tie wedding

Tim Burton meets fire dancing at this twisted black tie wedding

The theme was TIM BURTON. We didn't want a Halloween wedding. We didn't want a wedding specifically themed after any of his particular movies. We wanted our wedding to be a regular, beautiful, fancy wedding, but through the eyes of Tim Burton — TWISTED.

Tea towel invites & ombre roses, at this bilingual fairy tale wedding

Tea towel invites & ombre roses, at this bilingual fairy tale wedding

Venus and Sam rocked a colorful, bilingual wedding at the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, FL with wedding invites printed on tea towels(!), ombre rose waterfall centerpiece(!!), and a cake exploding with flowers inside(!!!). There were also bath bomb favors (made by Venus’ sister), lookalike clay figurine cake toppers, and color everywhere.

A Biltmore Estate library-inspired wedding with lots of BATMAN

A Biltmore Estate library-inspired wedding with lots of BATMAN

Mallory and William have made it a tradition to visit The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., each Christmas, enjoying the decorations and ambiance a few hours away from their home of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Last year, they went to the Christmas tree in front of the mansion, and William proposed…

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Love + intention: a Wiccan park wedding with a breastfeeding baby as the “bouquet”

I’m a witch, my husband is not. He knows now after being with me this long that I care a great deal about ritual, intention, and love. So, we set out to do everything by hand. We braided our own handfasting rope, we decorated our broom together, we brewed mead together, we painted and created our whole twelve (12!) invitations together. During anything we did, we lit a red candle, and we would hush to each other about love. We would declare our intent.