Offbeat Bride’s 5th Birthday

Written by Ariel

Ariel Stallings

Author of three editions of the Offbeat Bride book and its sequel (From Shitshow To Afterglow, the ultimate offbeat breakup book), Ariel Meadow Stallings is the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire web properties. She lives in Seattle with her teenaged son, where she also does small business consulting.

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Yesterday marked five years since the day that I launched offbeatwed.com! I wrote a whole big looooong rambling post about it over on the Offbeat Empire business blog yesterday, but to celebrate here on Offbeat Bride, I thought I’d just do a round-up of some of my very favorite shots of Offbeat Brides and their books…

Yesterday marked five years since the day that I launched offbeatwed.com!

I wrote a whole big looooong rambling post about it over on the Offbeat Empire business blog yesterday, but to celebrate here on Offbeat Bride, I thought I’d just do a round-up of some of my very favorite shots of Offbeat Brides and their books…

Let’s take a doodle back through the five years of reading together, shall we?

Bride doing some Important Reading before the Wedding.

yanina w book — The lovely Yanina, photo courtesy of Megan Finley.

Photo courtesy of Chrissy Albright Photography

Djinnaya handed her book off to a friend at her wedding, photo courtesy of Megan Finley.

Many thanks to HalfPint for suggesting this post, and if you want my really long winded ramblings about what it all meeeeans, head over to Offbeat Empire.

Oh and PS: we always love photos of brides with their books in the Flickr group! 🙂

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