Category Archive

Food

We all love alternative cake and nontraditional cupcakes, but Offbeat Wed also adores wedding pie, wedding candy, and wedding wheels of cheese. We have wedding menus, and information for special diets like vegetarians vegans, gluten free folks, and more!

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

The simple wedding menu to fit almost ALL dietary restrictions

We were looking for a casual menu that wouldn’t break the bank. But we have all the menu issues of the modern ages: Vegans, vegetarians, hard-core meat eaters, comfort food-lovers, tomato allergy, gluten allergy, dairy allergy, nut allergy, and even a garlic allergy. Now, my wedding menu is not fancy, and this isn’t for everyone, but again I’m looking for easy, as all-encompassing as possible, and budget-friendly. Here’s what we’re serving up…

booze canoe alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

An ode to wedding booze canoes

You know why I love Offbeat Bride readers? Because it’s completely NOT uncommon for y’all to fill up an entire boat with fucking alcohol. Like, that’s just a thing you people do now. Even one of our own staffers did this at her wedding! Gawd luv ya.

22 nontraditional wedding cakes

No one turns out an incredible wedding cake like an Offbeat Bride — y’all make your cakes work, whether they’re geeky, nerdy, booky, spooky, rainbow-y, or romantic…y.

I went strolling through some of our most pinned wedding cakes (cough, that’s Pinterest, yo, follow us if ya haven’t!), and I’m just now picking my drooling jaw up off the floor. There are some seriously great cakes in here that show us who YOU are. What you think, what you love, what you’re proud of, and what you believe.

halloween wedding cake and server alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

9 must-haves for the scary-awesomest Halloween wedding food spread

Megan and Marshall had a spooktacular Halloween-themed wedding in Canada. You’ll be seeing more of their awesome event later this week. But right now, let’s freak the fuck out all over their incredible Halloween-themed food spread. There are delicious barfing pumpkins, cheese with eyes, not to mention that one of their cupcakes might just kill you.