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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.

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Elizabeth & Randy’s vintage, Star Wars, geek out wedding

We already teased you with the Han Solo cake, and then so many more sexy Star Wars details. Now, as promised, here is the whole story on the amazing Star Wars wedding!

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Christa & Christopher’s Renaissance garden wedding

Christa & Christopher stayed true to themselves by having a small wedding at a Renaissance Fair. Even though it was spring, they choose their favorite colors — orange and brown — as the color them. Christa made her bridesmaid’s period dresses.

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Emma & Ted’s vodka-soaked, playful wedding celebration

In honor of Russian New Year’s (the week between New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas), we’re having an Eastern European (aka Russian) theme week! Day 5 of Eastern European week brings us Emma & Ted’s three day long wedding. The wedding featured lots of vodka as a nod to the groom’s Russian heritage. -Becca

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Tash & Sean’s fire hooping flow fest wedding

I, myself, am not a big one for tradition and rituals or the concept of marriage in general. However, this was very important for Sean. We had been committed together as life partners for some time now, and Sean had delightful visions of himself as a groom and husband. Marriage was very important for him, and I couldn’t say no to a party where I get to look friggin’ fabulous! So even though we knew that we didn’t need marriage to validate and define our relationship, keep it together, or somehow transform us into a more “loving” and “legit” couple, we decided to do it anyway, because I love him, he loves me, and why the f@#$ not?