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Sometimes we unleash our inner 12-year-old and are all OMG HOLY SHIT AWESOME CLOTHES SQUEE!!! Won’t you join us in this exploration of superficiality? Offbeat Wed’s fashion coverage includes tuxedo alternatives for grooms, clothes for non binary folks, lots of very unique wedding shoes, and more! Be sure to check out our wedding fashion advice posts, too.

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A 1930s garden party that you won’t believe took place in 2013

Ashley and Robert had that idea that they’d plan an authentic 1930s-styled garden party. The nail’s head was hit so hard, the nail died. The affair was held at a 1907 Tudor mansion in Highland Park, CA, with a 1935 Packard sedan to deliver the bride. The groom and groomsmen wore 1930s-era morning attire with top hats, while the bridesmaids were clad in couture organza gowns created by Ashley’s good friend and bridesmaid, Theresa Laquey. The bride’s out-of-this-universe dress is actual 1930s vintage from eBay. To top it all off, the catering was based on actual recipes from a 1930s cookbook. Everything about this makes me want to blow my wig… blink my peepers… be dizzy with these dames… and basically blurt out a lot of 1930s slang.

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A dreamy steamy custom wedding dress from KMKDesigns

Are you KIDDING ME with this!? How incredible is this wedding dress from our sponsor [vendor-heart link="http://www.kmkdesigns.org/"]KMKDesigns[/vendor-heart]. Remember when I introduced you to KMKDesigns a few months ago? Well, Ariel and I did a little snooping on their latest creations and ZOMGBALLS, were we impressed.

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Bedazzle your ink for the wedding day

Erika blinged out her fabulous dragonfly tattoos with little rhinestones, making them rival the most fancy-pants of accessories. In the wholly opposite direction to covering up your ink, adding cheap as free rhinestones is a pretty bad-ass way to embrace your tattoos and look a little more shiny in general.

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12 natural black wedding hairstyles for the offbeat and on-point

Once you start searching, there are so many rad examples of wild and elegant natural black wedding hairstyles. Seriously, check just this link as an example. Drool-worthy, amiright? I did some hand-picking of my favorites in this third edition of ass-kicking natural black hair. Let’s take a gander at what we’ve got this time. Spoiler alert: it’s brides totally owning their kinks, locs, twist-outs, and curls.