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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!

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Han Solo frozen in (carbon)icing!

In honor of Star Wars Pride Day, I gift you this Han Solo frozen in carbonite wedding cake…

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Make your own toasting goblets!

Screw toasting flutes — Offbeat Bride Tribe member m_notes79 and her partner are going to be using these toasting GOBLETS that she and her future father-in-law hand made on a lathe! She explains: My future father-in-law loves to turn wood on his lathe and is always looking for a new project. He ended up making […]

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22 wedding cakes that don’t look like wedding cakes

I like doing cake round-ups if you haven’t noticed. I’ve done groom’s cakes, cupcake displays and geeky wedding cakes so far. But sometimes some offbeat wedding cakes defy categorization. Here is a round-up of some wedding cakes and don’t actually fit the “wedding cake” mold… -Megan

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12 deliciously geeky wedding cakes

You may or may not know that I’m a total dork, even Ariel attested to that fact during her last book reading. So every now and then when we get geeky wedding submitted to us, or when someone submits their photos to the Flickr pool, I get SUPER excited when I see really geeky cakes. Please to enjoy some of my favorites.

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5 creative ways to display your wedding cupcakes

Ditching the wedding cake and going for cupcakes instead? Here are a few creative cupcake display options to give you some inspiration.

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Why do grooms get the coolest cakes?

While perusing the OBB Flickr pool for wedding cake photos I kept stumbling upon some amazingly unique cakes and when I’d check out the descriptions I’d notice that more often than not they were the groom’s cake. I saw so many wonderful cakes that I couldn’t help but share them with you.