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LGBTQ

At Offbeat Wed, we celebrate all queer identities and have subcategories for lesbian weddings, transgender weddings, gay weddings, and bisexuality & pansexuality, as well as genderqueer and non-binary gender identity issues.

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Why Cassandra Zetta changed her Cincinnati wedding photography business to focus on LGBTQ couples

After marrying her wife, and dealing with the personal struggles of planning a same-sex wedding, our sponsor Cassandra Zetta overhauled her photography business to focus entirely on same-sex weddings. The reason will both break and repair your heart at the same time…

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Marita & Loren’s backyard Sunday queer and trans wedding

We love the focus on accessibility and inclusion in this wedding! It’s no wonder their community was so willing to come together and make this sweet backyard wedding a reality. With amazing poetry, a night-before intention setting and ring blessing gathering, and killer style (including a wooden bow tie!), this pair wins the internet today.

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The photographer who will roadtrip 11 hours for her clients: Catching up with Angela from Milestone Images

Angela has been a longtime Offbeat Bride sponsor, and she’s even written a post in defense of Trash The Dress sessions. Given how many Offbeat Brides love her, we figured we’d do a little Q&A with Angela to see what she’s been up to…

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So you need a program for your LGBT wedding: our funniest wedding program goes same-sex

Jayme and Sondra found inspiration in the “So you’re going to sit through a wedding” program, but customized it to include some same sex wedding-related questions that were inevitably going to arise. They titled it, “So you’re going to sit through your (first, probably) two-bride wedding.” They addressed the ceremony legality, ceremony length, and of course, where are the rainbows?!