Category Archive

BIPOC

Based on reader feedback that it was “hard to find any weddings of people of color,” we started tagging posts that featured a BIPOC bride and/or groom — and/or means you’ll find tons of interracial couples in here! Increasing visibility for BIPOC folks has been a priority for us since 2008, and note that we always allow folks to self-identify. More about how and why we do this here.

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A Japanese wedding in Fiji

On Monday I got serious about gay travel in Fiji, today I get light and fluffy with wedding porn from the traditional but adorable wedding I got to witness in Fiji.

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Candace & Erik’s 1930s gal meets ska boy wedding

Candance and Erik has a simple ceremony at the registry office in London. They created a vinage feel with her lovely satin gown and Erik’s pin-stripe suit and hat. Friends from all over the world came to see them wed and Candance rocked a leather jacket and skull ring to keep things ‘her.’

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Nikki & Chris’s Jamaican-American, Southern soul backyard wedding

After their parent’s met for the first time, Nikki & Chris realized that they wanted their wedding to have that same level of love and intimacy. So, they scrapped their mansion wedding in favor of a small backyard wedding complete with Nikki’s mom’s Jerk chicken.

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A wedding SO traditional that it’s offbeat?

Abby Christenson of Lorenz Photography sent this wedding our way with such an intruiging description… “Jon and Emily had a Korean wedding SO traditional, that it actually no longer exists and hasn’t for generations. I think for the first time I was introduced to something being so traditional that it is now considered offbeat.”