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eloping

Offbeat Wed loves elopements! Come fill up your eyeballs with inspiration (plus advice on how to avoid family drama!) Also browse our archive of courthouse weddings (because we loves us some Justice of the Peace!).

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How to elope AND share the wedding with your family at the same time

What happens when you decide to elope and then, at the last minute, you want desperately to also share that experience with your families? Thanks to technology you can do what Andy and Cassie did…

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Violetta & Jason’s funky chicken dance-off wedding

Violetta & Jason had a quick ceremony at city hall (with their dog as Best Man!) and then an impromptu fall foliage photo shoot. Later they had a small dinner with friends to celebrate and then a funky chicken dance off at their local bar.

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Katie & Mike’s small, black, autumn day wedding

II wanted to bring you down gently from the awesomeness that was Halloween Week with Katie and Mike’s super chill, day-time park wedding on Halloween. After being engaged for two years, Katie and Mike planned a small, park elopement in two weeks. This Halloween day wedding featured black dresses, beautiful fall leaves, and, of course, pumpkins!

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Emily & Benj’s classy, punk elopement on a red rock

After two failed attempts at planning weddings Emily & Benj decided to do the next best thing: elope! So they took their soon and ran away to Vegas. But they didn’t get married my Elvis, they had their ceremony on a red rock in the Valley of Fire at sunset!