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Amelia & Ben’s books and fairy tales Quaker wedding

With a love of narrative and a Quaker ceremony, this already isn’t your typical shindig. Add in cool centerpieces, geeky speeches, and the bride’s amazing headpiece, and it’s turning into something really amazing. Don’t forget to watch their awesome vintage-style save-the-date too!

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Bouquets and boutonnieres dripping with personality from Surroundings Bridal Accessories

After a couple of Offbeat Brides used Surroundings Bridal Accessories for their super awesome weddings, the designer Acadia decided to get on the Offbeat Bride sponsor train! And now I get to show off some of her amazing wedding accessories and hip you to a special Offbeat deal.

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A bookstore same-sex wedding with Dirty Dancing twist

This New York City wedding boasts a book store setting, lovely fashion, pretty Ketubah, and one of the cutest choreographed first dance numbers on record. Get ready for total adorableness and lots of movie references. Because nobody puts this wedding in a corner, okay?

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Newspaper nails for literary hands

We needed an outlet for all of the wacky and awesome accessories, makeup trends, hair styles, and adornments we keep running into, especially now that we’re trolling around on Pinterest. So, here is our first Superficial Snack showing how to create awesome newspaper nails, perfect for a bookish wedding.

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Joanna & Julian’s book-themed bilingual pub wedding

These two celebrated their love of lit with book centerpieces, comics and books table numbers, portraits from comic artists, and a giant book card box. They even made origami flowers from comic pages. But to spice things up, they had an awesome swing number for their first dance.

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A literary table runner PERFECT for bookish weddings

Here’s an amazing idea with the DIY instructions to go along with it for a table runner, perfect for you literary types.