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If you love rustic weddings, you’ll want to take your time with our forest weddings archive, full of forest wedding venue ideas, decor inspiration, and even forest wedding dress styles. If this is your jam, you might also want to check out our archive of camping weddings and log decor.

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Treehouse weddings at Oregon’s Vertical Horizons Treehouse Paradise

If you’ve been on the lookout for a really unique outdoor wedding site, be prepared to get super excited… Vertical Horizons Treehouse Paradise is beautiful property in southern Oregon with three unique treehouses that are available for weddings! We’ve covered two treehouse weddings on OBB before and we’re DYING to see more of all that woodsy gorgeousness. […]

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Amy & Steve’s San Francisco Burner Double Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Amy, Web Marketing Manager Her Offbeat Partner: Steve, Paralegal Location & date of wedding: Stern Grove, San Francisco, CA — 06/27/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Brian and Helen, some of our best friends, were planning to get married around the same time. We came up with the brilliant idea to have […]

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Alex & Mark’s Mexi-Kitchy-Chic-Forest-Wonderland Wedding

You’ve seen this wedding before when Ariel raved about the “best woman’s” amazing outfit. Now get the entire scoop on my friend Alex’s beautiful offbeat redwood forest wedding that I was lucky to attend. The Offbeat Bride: Alex- Community Manager Her Offbeat Partner: Mark- Restaurant Manager Location & date of wedding: Nestldown, Los Gatos CA […]

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What should a Best Woman wear?

When you’re having a gender-blind wedding party, what should the Best Woman wear if she wants to look feminine, but still like she’s a part of the groom’s wedding party and not the bride’s? Well, here’s your solution:

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Our $2000 Summer Camp Wedding

We started the wedding planning process by declaring a strict and modest budget: $2,000 to be exact. We wanted our wedding to be about sincerity, authenticity, connection, and a celebration and proclamation of love and commitment. We didn’t want it to be about monogrammed napkins and excessive amounts of fondant. In all honesty, we didn’t want to let our wedding overshadow our relationship (and we needed to save money for the house we planned to buy four days after our wedding).

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The wedding dress that may change your life

I must share this photo of the wedding dress, which was designed and constructed by Jessica Hinel, a costume designer and seamstress based in the Bay Area.