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colored crinoline

We LOVE colorful petticoats peaking out from tea-length wedding dresses! Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple… we’ve seen every color of the rainbow, including full-spectrum RAINBOW petticoats.

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Color & Stripes

Colorful bride + stripey groom? IT’S BENDED MY MIND! MY MIND IS BENDED! See more shots from Travis & Abby’s colorful and striped wedding below … and hopefully we’ll have the full scoop soon… PS: (“My mind, it is bended” reference is from this video.)

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Helen & Dom’s Red, Retro, London Wedding

Some of you may remember Helen — she’s the reader who proposed to her boyfriend! Now, here’s the full story on the wedding… The Offbeat Bride: Helen, Occupational Therapist Her Offbeat Partner: Dom, Press Photographer Location & date of wedding: Register Office Ceremony, followed by reception in a local pub in London — 29th August […]

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Kelly & Chris’s NY Tea Party Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Kelly, Make up Artist My Offbeat Partner: Chris, Software Engineer Location & date of the wedding: New York, NY courthouse, and reception at Alice’s Tea Cup. March 20, 2009. What made our wedding offbeat: I bucked tradition by having a mid-day tea party wedding: Everything was exactly like the tea parties I […]

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How to dye your crinoline

This is a fabulous how-to from Tales of Female Husband, who offers her tips on dying your own colorful crinoline.

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Erin & Chris’ Brady-Bunched on the beach wedding

“I said vows to Chris’s biological children, and he said vows to mine. It just formalized the incredible bond we already have with each other.”

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Handmade blue wedding dress

Thanks to offbeat reader Danielle for emailing me about these amazing photos from the schoolhouse wedding of Lulu Bliss. The bride made her 1950s-style tea-length dress by hand (she reports it took about 100 hours) and if you look carefully, you’ll see red crinoline peeking out the bottom. (Colored crinoline FTW!) We all know I’m […]