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Buying the dress (an illustrated adventure)

At first I wasn’t going to to the sample sale, because when I hear about bridal sample sales, I think of roaming, semi-feral packs of friends all wearing matching t-shirts and clubbing each other to death over the first spotting of what might be a Vera Wang…

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How to sell your wedding dress online

When you sell your wedding dress on the Nearly Newlywed Marketplace, you earn 70% of the sale price of your dress without lifting a finger! Here’s how it works…

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13 wedding dresses under $100

Part of being an Offbeat Bride is knowing that you don’t HAVE to get your dress from a bridal boutique or a chain store and that it doesn’t have to cost eleventy-thousand dollars. So to help you on your affordably offbeat dress hunt, here are 13 wedding dress options under $100…

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Mother of the bride dresses that are not frumpy

Your mom should wear something that not only looks and feels good, but that expresses her style (and potentially the style of the wedding!). Here are some suggestions for the Offbeat Bride and Groom’s moms out there.