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nautical

Nautical wedding invitations, ideas, favors, and more! You may also be interested in our tentacle archives (yay for octopodes!), boat weddings, or our mermaid weddings.

IMG 4707 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Unusual, beautiful, nautical-themed wedding invitations with scientific roots

Concertina Press creates nautically-inspired wedding invitations and stationery, using antique scientific illustrations of cool sea creatures like jellyfish, octopus, squid, sea snails, and even (my personal faves!) sharks. Whether you’re having an elaborate Cape Cod yacht club wedding, an intimate beachside ceremony, or a quirky wedding at an aquarium, Concertina Press has just the invitation design for you. Let’s dive in…

soon honey beer bottle alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Fancy cake adorably attacked by cheerful octopodes

We’ve got a steamy, tentacle-filled wedding coming soon, and we wanted to give you a little preview in the form of their striped and rose-bedecked cake getting consumed by swirly green tentacles. Oh, and two of the sweetest little octopodes took up residence at the top to hug it out.

ocotpus tie clip alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Tentacle and octopus wedding ideas and details for beautiful briny sea weddings

Suzi and Paul share our fondness for the wriggly tentacled types that we’re celebrating this week in our mash-up theme of barns and tentacles (BARNACLE WEEK!). We scoured the tentacle archives and found steampunk octopodes, squid cakes, tentacle crowns, knitted cephalopods, and tentacle-covered accessories. Wrap your many arms around these babies…

VanDyke 3948 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Dive in to Dick Van Dyke’s seafoam circus fantasy wedding

This heart-stopping seafoam circus wedding features comedian, producer, writer, singer, dancer, candlestick-maker Dick Van Dyke and his bride, Arlene Silver-Van Dyke.