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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!

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Steal this menu: Pacific Northwest-style comfort food (plus root beer floats!)

Perhaps I was jonesing for some comfort food, but when I spied the menu from Lisa and Kevin’s garden party comfort food wedding, I was all “YESSSSSSS.” So I asked Lisa to give us even more information on their wedding day noms.

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Faerie Brides makes custom faerie wedding gowns straight from your imagination

Faerie Brides creates bespoke wedding gowns — specializing in fantasy, fairytale, Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance, vintage, and faerie wedding gowns. She also makes completely custom designs, so the squee-worthy dress possibilities are endless. And she offers some ridiculously great personal service — working with each bride personally, offering individual measurement sessions, telephone consultations, design and fabric options, and worldwide shipping. Custom faerie dresses for ALL!

Let’s look at just a FEW of her amazing wedding dress styles, while you learn how to take advantage of her special freebies for you guys.

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Personalize your table decor with real-life trivia

Michelle and Chris upped the personalization factor in their wedding by using their table decor for mini-factoids about them as a couple.

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Katy Perry the Wedding Unicorn: she sneezes glitter, pees lemonade, and shoots pink fire

Our wedding featured a life-sized unicorn that sneezed glitter, peed lemonade, and shot pink fire. If that sounds more like the twisted fantasy of a six-year-old girl than a standard wedding item… well, that’s just how we roll. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a bride dispensing lemonade from a unicorn’s genitals.