Category Archive

backyard

These posts are all about getting married in backyards — sometimes the couple’s OWN backyard, and sometimes the backyard of a friend of family member. You may also want to check out our archive of at-home weddings.

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Bri & Ian’s Stress-Free Celebration of Love and Vegan Pastries!

The offbeat bride: Bri, Pastry Chef-in training and Ex-Weather Forecaster Her offbeat partner: Ian, Computer Nerd and Library Lover Location & date of wedding: The Fremont Troll (ceremony) in Seattle, WA and Ian’s sister’s backyard (reception) in Seattle, WA on September 5th, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: I proposed to Ian in December of […]

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The Offbeat Aunties

Those of you who have read my book will remember my aunties, Andrea & Stacy. I handed my bouquet off to them at our wedding. They’d gotten married a few months before us in 2004 … but then the law changed and they weren’t married any more. Since California law has changed again, they decided […]

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Michelle & Jason’s costume party picnic extravaganza

The offbeat bride: Michelle, Woodshop Maven Her offbeat partner: Jason, Clockmaker Location & date of wedding: Friend’s backyard in Audubon PA, near Philly. July 19, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We wanted a wedding that was simple, low budget, and entirely ours. Our budget was very modest but we had complete editorial control. Also, […]

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Sarah & Jenn’s backyard fairy wedding

“All of the guests humored us by dressing up in wings and fancy fairy garb, and our officiant was a happy purple fairy~ We were married at Twilight, and the entire ceremony quoted from Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) or was written by us, invoking all of the faerie realm.”