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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!

iphone wedding alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Wedding duds for your iPhones

If yours is a marriage made in tech-geek heaven, perhaps you might be as tickled about this idea as I am. And look how cute the photo op is…

Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta instead of cake?

In Sweden we have a cake for all occasions but mostly associated with summer time and burials, the Traditional Swedish Smörgåstårta. I started requesting that my cake would be a Smörgåstårta not only for its awesome versatility but also for its wonderful properties. Here follows the definitive account of the properties of the most awesome of all Cakes. The one cake to rule them all.

Mallette Ferricci LeahAndMarkcom DSC7526 low alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A winning same-sex wedding with an armadillo cake

Ronnie and Brent won a full wedding giveaway from photographers [vendor-heart link="http://vendors.offbeatwed.com/listing/leah-and-mark"]Leah and Mark[/vendor-heart] to pull together the best Georgia wedding vendors and put on a kick-ass wedding for the couple. After 11 years together, it was a long time coming. Plus, you won’t want to miss their armadillo cake, straight out of Steel Magnolias!

opal shimmer formal plugs alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Formal plugs and tunnels for stretched ears

If you’ve got stretched ears, you know what we’ll say… rock them for the wedding! There may be cases where you’ll want a flesh-tone hider, but that would make us sad face when formal plugs like the ones in this post exist. If you’ve decided to embrace your lobes, I’ve compiled a little collection of my favorites formal plugs for wedding days, or any day you want to rock your stretched ears AND feel fancy…