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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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We’ve got your picnic wedding menu AND the cute blankets to go with it

Thinking about a picnic-themed wedding? You’re probably gonna want a picnic wedding menu to go with it.

You’ve seen our menus for afternoon wedding teas and the wedding menu for (just about) every diet, right? Well, here’s one fit to share on an adorable blanket on a green summer lawn somewhere… complete with a suggestion or two for picnic blankets and baskets at the end!

Mocktail recipes for weddings

18 delicious mocktail recipes to thrill your teetotaling guests

We’ve talked about delicious mocktails and non-boozy drinks before, but we knew there were more drool-worthy recipes out there to inspire your DIY bar, signature drinks, or to suggest to your bar service.

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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…

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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.

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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.