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Wedding humor is totally a real thing — because, sometimes all you can do is laugh at the ridiculousness of the wedding industry, wedding planning, and family drama.

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The Onion skewers us: Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding To Reflect Their Personalities

This is the most awesome satire of offbeat wedding trends since Portlandia’s “Cool Wedding”:

Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding To Reflect Their Personalities.

Yes, it’s mean-spirited as hell, but I think we can all recognize ourselves in there and laugh at our own ridiculousness.

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This is your last chance to run: why commitment comedy falls flat for me

Every once in a while, I peek my head out of the safe, offbeat cave I’ve carved for myself here in this corner of the wedding industry and I get a terrible shock. See, I spend so much time over in my little niche that I forget about the rest of the wedding world and how icky it often is.

Case in point: this HARDY HAR HAR hilarious sign…

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Funny wedding program: So you’re going to sit through a wedding – DOWNLOADABLE FILE

This funny wedding program has been pinned over 250k times, and now we have the fully editable downloadable file for you to customize for your own geeky wedding!

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Miranda & Jake’s Themeless, Unrehearsed & Heartfelt Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Miranda, copy editor Her Offbeat Partner: Jake, student/IT Location & date of wedding: San Francisco City Hall — Thursday(!), June 4, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: As a kid, I never really dreamed of “My Big White Wedding.” I knew I wanted to marry Jake and I knew my mom would […]

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Shannon & Brandon’s comedic Seattle wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Shannon, theater actress/web site manager My Offbeat Partner: Brandon, improv actor/managing director Location & date of wedding: Lake Forest Park Civic Club on Lake Washington in Seattle, WA (we’re not members, anyone can rent it) — 5/4/2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was completely ours. We ran the thing ourselves […]

You might be an Offbeat Bride if...

You might be an Offbeat Bride if…

…you ask a bride-to-be what color her dress is and she says, “Like, do you mean ivory vs. white?” and you remember not everyone considers red/purple/rainbow/polka-dotted dresses for their wedding day.