Category Archive

Favors & Flowers

We have SO much wedding inspiration for floral stuff like bouquets and centerpieces, and also non-floral alternatives like paper flowers and origami boutonnieres… plus oodles of wedding favor inspiration. We’ve got separate categories for floral DIY projects and DIY wedding favors.

sequined wedding dress and colorful bouquet alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Sequined wedding dress + brightly colored bouquet = happy eyes

You guys know I have deep love of the sequined multi-colored full-frontal freak-out wedding gowns, and this photo of Sara’s glittering multi-colored wedding dress fully feeds that hunger. The sparkles, the colors, the boldness of the floral bouquet… I’m moving in.

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Take “yay” flags up a notch with team flags

Ann and Eric wanted a festive conclusion to their wedding ceremony, so as guests entered the venue, they were handed “team flags” with the bride or groom’s name. Guests then cheered and waved their flags when the pair walked back down the aisle, and it looks like there were big smiles all around.

belt buckle on bouquet alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Use a belt buckle on your wedding bouquet

In today’s edition of is-this-genius-or-what, I present to you this amazing bouquet held together by a BELT BUCKLE. You might have spied it when we featured Shondelyn & Tyler’s SCUBA-loving aquarium wedding in October, yes?

playing cards alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Encourage guest bonding with packs of playing cards

Wanna encourage your guests to interact and get to know each other? Board games have been employed by offbeat couples past to kick off the group bonding. But board games are big and take up space. That’s why Annie and Erik’s idea of putting packs of playing cards on each table is a great one.