Amp up your shoes with these wedding shoe addons (clips! cuffs! feathers! a holster!)
When it comes to wedding shoes, my first advice? Make ’em comfy! With that in mind, you don’t actually have to splurge on weird and wild shoes to get the impact you’re looking for. You can find plain old comfortable shoes (at a store or already in your closet!) and use some wedding shoe addons to make them AMAZING. I’m talking ankle cuffs with feathers, blingy shoe clips, rainbow wings, kinky chains, LED laces, and pom-poms! There are so many ways to take a plain shoe to wild-as-hell levels of fun. Let’s see what I found scouring the web…
Make all your photography worries vanish with Seattle-based Tom Ellis Photography (with a special reader deal!)
Hiring offbeat-friendly vendors is often not easy. And then sometimes you find one who just makes perfect sense. And in this case, our partner, Seattle-based Tom Ellis Photography, falls easily into the latter category. He’s super experienced, has affordable and ultra customizable packages, has over 1000 weddings under his belt (no joke, he’s got the chops!), and is so ready to field all your authentic, sentimental, and totally offbeat ideas for your wedding. When it’s all over, you’ll be ugly crying over how beautiful everything looks in your photos.
Oh! And stay tuned for a special promo just for Offbeat Bride readers…
Globes, library cards, & Hogwarts houses: 12 unconventional wedding guestbooks
If you’re into the concept of capturing a snapshot of those who attended your wedding, a wedding guestbook is ideal. But you don’t have to settle for one of those padded, white, crystal-covered books with a feather pen. You can literally have your guests sign anything you want! We’re talking Harry Potter houses, book-lovers’ library cards, a chic globe (that I’d want in my house anyway!), clear acrylic puzzle pieces, and Instax snaps in a cute AF book. The world is your guestbook oyster. Here are some recent I wanted to share…
Some of the most drop-dead gorgeous wedding portraits EVER (and you can make yours just as fab)
We’ve been ogling stunning photos by our New Jersey-based longtime photography partner Dennis Pike for years now and STILL never ever ever can get over how amazing they are. No seriously: when we first stated working with him, all of us were heart eyes emoji-ing his photos and he still never stops surprising us with his use of light, shadows, and composition.
Peeking at his portrait portfolio is like falling into the looking glass in a love wonderland. The best part of working with Dennis is that he’s been owning offbeat weddings for his entire career. Some of his very favorite weddings came from readers like you and it’s a match made in heaven every time.