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jewish

This is where Jewish wedding traditions meet offbeat tastes… we’ve got everything from geeky Jewish wedding ceremonies, to LGBTQ Jewish weddings, to interfaith weddings (Hin-Jew? Jew-Bu? We gotchoo!), all the way to eco chuppah ideas, and more…

Rainy Seaside Wedding Bess and Eric 33 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A cozy & cosmic New Jersey wedding by the sea

It made sense for us to have a seaside New Jersey wedding at The Grenville Hotel! Our wedding was an ode to the beach, the stars, and cosmic joy. In lieu of anything religious, much of the energy at the wedding was sheer gratitude for existence. Since we both love astronomy and the vastness of the cosmos, we wanted our wedding to have an ethereal, contemplative quality.

atheist game night wedding Daniel Fugaciu Photography12 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A Leap Day atheist wedding with board games

It’s like we were meant too have a Leap Day atheist wedding! We were a 99% match on a dating app and have been lucky in love ever since. When selecting a date we saw that 2/29/20 was a Saturday and knew that was the right date for us to take the Leap! We decided on a game night theme, as it’s our favorite activity that we share with family and friends.

Rainy Seaside Wedding Bess and Eric 34 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

The Seven Blessings: an inspired, personal version for a Jewish wedding

My having a Jewish background and my husband having a German background, we wanted to incorporate both cultures into the ceremony in a meaningful way. I rewrote the Seven Blessings to reflect our secular view of the world, with our family members reciting each one!

interfaith kinky wedding Expert Productions12 e1709248675241 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A nerdy Star Wars wedding but make it kink-friendly

This openly kinky couple had so many cool pop culture references at their nerdy wedding! When you find out how they met (and where), you’ll know it was just meant to be. Wait till you see their cakes! And you won’t believe what one of them was used for. If you’re curious to know how an interfaith, kinky, nerdy wedding turns out then you gotta get in here for the sweet heartfelt scenes and the geeky touches.

transgender lesbian wedding Lily Guillen Photo18 scaled alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

This transgender lesbian wedding had a PB&J unity sandwich

We were high school sweethearts! I asked Cassandra on our first date because I wanted her to take me to prom, but I planned to split up when she left for college in the fall. We’ve been glued together for eight years now.

Michael Sami Brooklyn Microwed 7 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Big love in Brooklyn at a botanical garden micro wedding

If we were going to do the damn thing, it needed to be unique to us and our life and not put us into debt as the first act of our marriage! It was also important to us that despite our straight-passing relationship, our queer identity and the community we have made for ourselves was present in the day.