Category Archive

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.

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.

Hammer Kent Christina Carroll Photography BrittanyJudy4383 low alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A scenic lakeside nautical wedding

Brittany and Judy, both looking as if they walked out of a magazine (including a super fab pantsuit that reminds me of this one), had their wedding at the equally drool-inducing Horseshoe Bay Resort in Austin, Texas. The views from the ceremony site will blow you away. Christina Carroll Photography captured the day and couldn’t help herself from getting into the joy and epic wattage smiles. Who could blame her? Now go check out the first look, matching bouquets, lakeside views, and nautical details.

6822570378 84499c0ebc c alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Andrea & Jim’s nautical literary adventure wedding

These two continued their love affair with sailing together by getting married on their sailboat, then taking their honeymoon on board around the world. Their small wedding all fit on board for the ceremony before walking down the pier to the reception, but you’ll swoon when you see where their unofficial first dance took place.

5562305088 a409085c99 b alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Lori and Desi’s seaside paradise wedding

A teary sunset ceremony on a boat, a romantic rooftop reception, and a lot of DIY touches brought out the fun for this Florida couple. Who says your wedding can’t be enchanting AND entertaining?

philly nautical wedding alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

We’re dying over this eclectic, art nouveau, old-timey nautical wedding

Combine Victorian duck bust cake toppers with washboard percussion and an ship with “old-timey” charm and what do you have? Heather and Chris’s wedding, of course!