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Browse our real New Jersey weddings for wedding venue ideas and more. Oh and be sure to check out our listing of New Jersey’s best wedding vendors who are all offbeat-friendly.

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Kimberly & Steve’s ’50s retro rockabilly wedding

A 1950s drive-in, a vintage candy buffet, Pink Ladies and T-Birds, and even a little heavy metal — why, it must be greased lighting! And you do not want to miss the major rumble that happened at the ceremony. Let’s just say that it included “the man, the myth, and the legend” and the “baddest Catholic school teacher ever.”

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A literary Dinosaur wedding with a purple dress and a bad-ass blind bride

Check out Elsa’s awesome manifesto that challenges the WIC’s assumptions about what is “bridal,” to get to know this awesome bride. Then get a load of the dino and Doctor Who details, purple swingin’ dress, and “steamcane” that made this wedding fabulous.

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Sari & Thomas’ elegantly gothic Halloween wedding

Get your candy out because it’s Halloween Week! We’ve got zombies, ghosts, and gore in our weddings. Today it’s an elegantly gothic affair with touches of Tim Burton, antiques, and Edgar Allan Poe. PLUS: little flower witches!

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Fall in wedding photographer-ly love with Philadelphia’s Thomas Robert Clarke

Keep reading to find out what high school, public radio, and cats have to do with why the “City of Brotherly Love” has fallen in major photographer-ly love for Thomas Robert Clarke.

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Rachele & Steve’s 3D graphic design wedding

When two graphic designers get married you’re sure to have something good to look at. In this case, it was their printed materials including programs, invites, save-the-dates, and seating chart. But the really amazing part was that they made them in 3D! The guests even donned 3D glasses to see the fun. But no glasses could have saved them from break dancing casualties.

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Phenomenal photos and freebies with New Jersey’s Neil van Niekerk

After getting their pictures back, offbeat bride Katie, in her infinite wisdom, immediately emailed her New Jersey-based photographer Neil van Niekerk and told him: “Given the wonderful work you did for our wedding, I was thinking you should definitely be on Offbeat Bride so other offbeat brides in our area can find you!” So he did. And we are. And he’s even offering freebies!