offbeat enough

Do you ever feel like you’re too traditional to be offbeat, but too offbeat to be traditional? Do you ever worry if you’re “offbeat enough”? Do you feel like you have whiplash, feeling ostracized because some of your choices are too weird for your family, but “too traditional” to be considered offbeat? We’re all unique, and we’re all wrestling with the friction between traditional pressures and the perceived pressures of wanting your wedding to be “unique.” You’re in great company. Read up…

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My wedding is not a college entrance exam: does every wedding choice have to prove a point?

Somewhere in the wedding planning process I gave birth to a beast: you, Wedding-Planning-Me, you were born. And now we have to have a little talk.

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Battle cry of the Offbeat Lite

Sometimes I get the feeling that my fellow Offbeat Lites feel out of the loop on Offbeat Wed. They let themselves feel pushed aside, and unrepresented. I’m here to tell you that’s not the case.

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Narcissism, self-promotion, and your wedding

Thanks to Offbeat Bride Cay for sending me this recent BBC article, which asks the question “Has an atmosphere of narcissism and self-promotion worked its way into the idea of the modern wedding celebration?”

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Why I worry when people say they want a “unique” wedding (let’s talk about authenticity vs. attention)

“We’re thinking of having all our parents walk us down the aisle together,” you say to a friend, and then watch for a smile or a twitch of the eyelid. Did that smile mean they like it? Or did it mean they’re just being nice? Shit, I can’t tell! Now I think I’m going to have an anxiety vomit all over the floor!