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Holly & Seth’s high-fiving museum wedding with a broken foot

Interactive invitations, balloon guitars, high-fiving, and dancing all night, despite a bride with a broken foot! But at least you can still shimmy the night away from the waist up. This wedding has a lot of color, a lot of graphic design fun, and one grandma you just can’t keep down.

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Holly & James’ handmade winter meditation on love

This wedding takes its direction from a desire to leave a small carbon footprint and to locally-source as much as possible. Having it in the state’s first Platinum LEED-certified building was definitely apropos. The homemade hula hoops, butternut squash soup, and folk music were icing on this Star Trek-topped cake.

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The wedded unveiling of Team Awesome in San Diego

Sometimes you have to break the silence and declare that you are, indeed, a superhero. Jennifer and Bryan’s wedding was just the place. Especially alongside their Halloween-themed reception complete with a spooky candy buffet, gruesome poison cocktails, and photobooth hijinks.

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Butterflies, succulents, and an art museum wedding in San Diego

This beautiful wedding took place under a huge sculpture at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Surrounded by art, the pair opted for orange, green, and butterfly-infused decor.

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A geeky elegant dinosaur museum wedding at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

When some fossilized friends make their way to the ceremony, you’re in for a Jurassic-sized party. This couple even had to hire a bounty hunter to protect their uber intricate Millennium Falcon cake. That’s right, we’ve got Star Wars, dinosaurs, and the coolest mix of geek and chic this side of an ice age.

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Rebecca & Andrew’s kid-friendly country farm museum wedding

A country oasis in Rhode Island is where the bride spent many summers and now it’s where she married her man. Kids ran free, farm animals entertained, and a burlesque entertainer named Miss Cherry Delight sang for all. Grab a spiked frozen lemonade and read on.