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Stuff we love

Whether you’re looking for unique wedding dresses, wedding shoes, cute wedding invitations, nontraditional wedding rings, or an offbeat wedding photographer… chances are you’ll find ’em here. Start by browsing our Vendor Directory for vendors in YOUR area, and then have fun with these posts to find online wedding dressmakers, photographers, and more!

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Your top 10 wedding invitations from Minted.com

I do this a couple times a year: I go peeking at the sales reports of what Offbeat Brides are buying from Minted so that I can see which wedding invitation designs you guys are loving. Why? Because you guys have fucking awesome taste, and I like to get inspired. So let’s take a look at the wedding invitations that are floating y’all’s boats this fall. Let’s count down the 10 most popular designs.

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Find your dream DIY wedding hair with How-to Hair Girl

For those of you that have been paying attention, Roxie Hunt, aka How-to Hair Girl, has regularly been giving us amazing DIY hair-style videos and inpsiration, she’s even got hair love for our grooms! For those that are all, “Wuh? DIY wedding hair? That’s a THING!?” We’re here to officially introduce you to our lovely sponsor, How-to Hair Girl — a DIY hair blogger with a fabulous category on DIY bride hair ideas. And she’s about to revolutionize your wedding hair…

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Signs, cards, and zombies: 11 “thank yous” for post-wedding warm fuzzies

Here in the U.S. we’re celebrating Thanksgiving today. Lots of countries have a version of this holiday: Canada and Grenada’s in October, Liberia’s earlier this month, and the Netherlands shares our date. Here on Offbeat Bride we have a lot to be thankful for, like our awesome readers, supportive community, advertisers that keep us going, and amazing guest posters. From all of us, we thank you for all you do.

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Simple afternoon tea wedding menu

Now that we’re back to catering our own wedding (with major help from the wedding party), I whipped up a concrete version of the simple afternoon tea wedding menu that’s been running around in my head. I’m aiming to keep this very very simple to spare us stress and cost and time.