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The Offbeat Bride: Angela, Hairstylist
Her offbeat partner: Rob, IT Tech
Date and location of wedding: Caroline Country Club, Denton, MD — June 1, 2013
Our offbeat wedding at a glance: I love color, so I wanted everything to be colorful. All my bridesmaids wore a different color, and all of the groomsmen (after much bribing) wore a different color to match the girls in a pastel shade. I wore glitter heels from Kate Spade, and had purple hair.
We had lots of DIY projects including the inexpensive (but time-consuming!) backdrop made from streamers that provided a colorful background for a lot of photos. I also love to bake, and put rainbow sprinkles on everything that I possibly could.
Tell us about the ceremony:
We had a short ceremony, mainly because we had the wedding outside and we knew it would be hot. We had a sand ceremony with sand from the beach in Hawaii where Rob proposed. I love glitter, so we ended up mixing the sand from the beach with rainbow glitter instead of two different colored sands. The sunlight hitting the glitter was beautiful!
My favorite moment:
The most meaningful part of the wedding was being surrounded by both of our families and the people we love while walking down the aisle to the man with whom I will be spending the rest of my life. It truly was an amazing feeling.
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What was the most important lesson you learned from your wedding?
The most important lesson I learned from my wedding was to make sure you have EVERYTHING in writing from your vendors. I also appreciated having more than a year to plan the wedding. We were able to save and pay off our vendors one by one and have nothing to pay except tips for the vendors when the wedding was over.
Care to share a few vendor/shopping links?
- Photography: Ashley Holloway
- Venue: Caroline Country Club
- Bridesmaids' dresses: PrettyMaids from Patsy's Bridal
- Bride's dress: Maggie Sottero from Amber Nicole's Bridal
- Bride's shoes: Kate Spade “Charm” heel in Multi
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Love everything, but in particular, love those cute He/She signs, love your eye make up and (sorry for how odd this may sound, coming from a total stranger) love your freckles! Very endearing. Congrats.
Thank you! I loved the signs… And making everything for the wedding. It was truly the best day of my life! <3
Everything at this wedding looks good enough to eat! Such great, eye-catching design.
Thank you! I Enjoyed every minute of making things for my wedding. My photographer captured all the little details I worked so hard on. It truly was a magical day 🙂
I desperately, desperately need those sparkly little flats in my life!
The shoes were my favorite! And half as much as my dress… But I wore them NYE 🙂
A Goat Farm kind of Wedding
OMG THHHHHIIIIIISSSSSS!!!!!!!!! This is the MOST similar wedding i have seen to what i want my wedding to be like!!!!! So excited!!!!! And she has purple bangs!!! Im about to dye my bangs purple!!!! And for the wedding i want to dye my bangs/ possibly all my hair temorarily rainbow. Cuz i love rainbow thats our theme. I may steal some ideas from this wedding! Of course mine wont be for a few years yet, but at least i have super long to plan it. The only thing id add to this would be rainbow colored paper laterns!!! I just got some at a local Big lots, with the lights included! I look forward to many more awesome finds of random stuff to use in our wedding over the next few years… Congratulations to this couple and i cant say enough their wedding is awesome!!!!!