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industry insiders

The Offbeat Wed community includes hundreds of inclusive wedding industry pros who are all working to change the cynical, exploitative nature of the mainstream Wedding Industrial Complex. We invite our awesome offbeat vendor friends to share their industry insider tips with us and our readers — together we can change the wedding industry to be more inclusive, more offbeat, and more awesome! (If you’re an offbeat vendor, let’s get you in here!)

10 wedding photographer pet peeves alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Don’t let these 10 wedding photographer pet peeves mess with your photos

Wedding-day snafus don’t just stress out the couple — they can also affect your photographer’s ability to get those amazing photos you’ve envisioned. So I polled a handful of longtime pros to find out their biggest pet peeves and the stress-relieving fixes. I hope these 10 tips will help you build an awesome working relationship with your photographer.

post wedding portrait sessions alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

6 excuses to break out your wedding finery for a post-wedding portrait session

My husband and I got married a little over a month ago now, and I have realized that one of the best decisions that we made was to have a second portrait session after we returned home from our honeymoon. Getting good wedding photos was important to me, and I was stressed that perhaps the short timeframe in which we needed to get all of our “perfect wedding portraits” wasn’t going to be long enough, was going to be too stressful, or was going to be too hot. So I decided that having more photos of us taken when we didn’t have those stresses or constraints sounded like a much better idea, and man were there a lot of benefits to that choice…

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Tales from a tuxedo shop: The 5 things you should know about tuxedo rental and fittings

You have decided you want the guys or gals all done up in tuxedos. Yay! That’s awesome. However, you might be not sure where to start. I am the store manager at a family owned tuxedo rental shop in Indiana, and I love my job. I will be the first to say you do not need to rent tuxes if you don’t want to, but today I am going to go over what you should know if you do…

elopement location alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Why elopements are awesome, cheap, and seriously the coolest

When you don’t belong to the “my wedding is a party” club, you might feel like you’re missing out on some of the cool wedding stuff — centerpieces, decorations, venues, et cetera. In my experience, elopement weddings are at once amazing, full of awe and love, affordable, and totally relaxing yet incredibly thrilling all at once.