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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.

Our hearts warmed upon seeing this homegrown backyard woodland wedding

Our hearts warmed upon seeing this homegrown backyard woodland wedding

We wanted a forest-themed wedding because of our shared love of nature and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in which we live. We also wanted to focus on our friends, family, and community. We sought out vendors we knew, the caterer used produce from the farm where Adrienne volunteers. The favors (goat’s milk soap) and the flowers both came from vendors at our farmer's market.

Fall in love with the purple hair, blue dress, and dancing puppies at this Kentucky wedding

Fall in love with the purple hair, blue dress, and dancing puppies at this Kentucky wedding

Laura and Adam got ready together before their Kentucky wedding surrounded by their loved ones. Then it was all about the big, rad dance party all night long. My favorite part is their pup dancing around the ceremony the whole time! They also had activities for the kids and a high-five confetti kiss. D’aww.

Don’t miss the greenery bouquet, killer glasses, undercut purple hair, a gorgeous deep blue dress, and epic sweets table.

A casually elegant BBQ wedding in their own backyard

A casually elegant BBQ wedding in their own backyard

Shortly before Matt and I got engaged, we bought a house with a stunning park-like backyard, complete with an arch for the ceremony. We planned the wedding in just three months. Our focus was celebrating the new family we were creating with my three sons from my first marriage. To keep it casual, we held a catered backyard barbecue on a Friday evening.

A crawfish boil, tacos, & musical architecture at this NoLA wedding

A crawfish boil, tacos, & musical architecture at this music box village wedding

April and Kyle’s wedding was the first ever ceremony and reception to take place at the Music Box Village. The Music Box Village space is an open-aired arrangement of unique pieces of musical architecture — shacks and structures designed to make a variety of sounds — accompanied by the performers’ instruments and women dancers from Dancing Grounds and is completely outdoors.