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Real Offbeat Weddings

We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to simple and small weddings. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.com/submissions.

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Kendra & Blake’s Rock & Roll Revival, Post-Elopement Party

The Offbeat Bride: Kendra Bentle, Branding and Design Writer and OBTer SheHim Her Offbeat Partner: Blake Rainey, Musician Location & date of wedding: The EARL, music venue and bar, Atlanta, GA — 1/11/09 What made our wedding offbeat: Blake and I met on-stage at an Atlanta music venue called The EARL during an event aptly […]

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Aaron & TJ’s Dog-Lovin’ Food-Fightin’ Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Aaron Ashley, Master Colorist Her Offbeat Partner: Tanner Jacop, Master Hair Stylist Location & date of wedding: The tenth tee overlooking the intercoastal, Lake Worth, Fla. — January 18, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: There were many reasons why our wedding was truely unique, but there was one that stuck out […]

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“When Pagans Go Traditional” wedding

Our biggest challenge was balancing our desire to have a very pagan handfasting with the need to maintain a certain family friendly normalcy…

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Elka & Peter’s Rural Wisconsin Wedding… with honey!

The Offbeat Bride: Elka, editor and writer Her Offbeat Partner: Peter, city attorney for Napa Location & Date of wedding: We had the ceremony on my family’s land, where my Aunt Kris tumbled over her pony’s head when she was galloping him in the moonlight, and where I rode horses as a child and teenager. […]

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Helen & Dom’s Red, Retro, London Wedding

Some of you may remember Helen — she’s the reader who proposed to her boyfriend! Now, here’s the full story on the wedding… The Offbeat Bride: Helen, Occupational Therapist Her Offbeat Partner: Dom, Press Photographer Location & date of wedding: Register Office Ceremony, followed by reception in a local pub in London — 29th August […]

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Bethany & Kris’ Fabulously Fall “Extended Dinner Party” Wedding

My partner and I both love the fall and consider it the best season in Minnesota. I also love to throw dinner parties and wanted our ceremony to be an “extended dinner party” with wonderful food and wine. We also wanted to accentuate the beautiful colors of fall, so we found a beautiful “chalet” at a city park. I wore a chocolate brown dress with awesome orange shoes. Kris wore a classic black suit with a golden rust tie. We had no attendants or “wedding party.” Just us.