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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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Cake-scape

I loves me some non-traditional wedding cakes, and this one is almost more landscape than cake. You’ve got rolling hills of fruits and almond slivers and towers of strawberries and those phallic bananas and holy hell: it’s enough sweets to feeds a small nuptial army! The caption refers to it as a “cake installation” which […]

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Brides in boots

I look at a lot of wedding pictures, and I randomly get obsessed with certain accessories … today it’s boots. Brides in boots! I love them. These boots are made for walking … down the aisle.

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Bad-ass red & black wedding

Jane Doe’s UK wedding is a stunner, with the bride’s red dress and the retro bridemaids.

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16 winged brides to make your little fairy heart take flight

I wish more brides wore wings to their weddings … it’s such a fanciful, fun way to lighten up the day. Can this become a trend, please? Thanks. Here’s more fodder for the wing trend fire…

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Goth cake toppers for your dark wedding tastes

Are you looking for a wedding cake topper that’s as dark and delicious as your goth wedding plans? Well, I’ve rounded up a few goth cake toppers that might fit the bill. Check ’em out…

Channel the setting sun with these breathtaking sunset gradient gowns from Wai-Ching

Silk wedding dresses from Wai-Ching

For those uninterested in princess wedding dresses, prepare to have your head explode from the innovative gorgeousness that is indie-designer Chrissy Wai-Ching Leung’s dress line. Hailing from Seattle via Chicago, Hong Kong, and Nice, France, Chrissy specializes in making custom silk wedding dresses that fly (or in some cases float) in the face of over-brocaded […]