Andreas & Ariel’s island hippie/raver forest freak-fest (10th anniversary flashback!)
10 years ago today, the wedding that ultimately kicked off the whole weird world that is Offbeat Bride happened. On August 7th 2004, I married Andreas. Then I wrote a book about it. Then I launched a website about the book, and now here we are. To celebrate, I figured I’d fill out a wedding profile myself. If these pics make you curious, you can get the Offbeat Bride book on Amazon for like 50 cents.
Kathy & Jon’s ceilidh dancing, orchard camping, and game playing wedding
With some of us bundled up for the cold, nothing looks more inviting than a picnic wedding complete with baskets of homemade food, blankets on the fields of an orchard, and lawn games galore. Follow it all up with four hours of ceilidh dancing, and there’s a major party on your hands!
How can we have chair seating at our park venue when chairs aren’t allowed?
My fiancé and I are having our ceremony in a public garden in New Jersey and have been told that we are not allowed to bring chairs for our guests. We have discussed buying nice picnic blankets and laying them about for our guests to sit on, but I would still like something a little more “chair-like.” How do you create comfortable seating rather than just having guests on their feet the whole time?
Lauren & Ben’s casual double-vowed Lord of the Rings wedding
A campground wedding with picnic fare, games, and geeky details? Sign us up! We’ve got Lord of the Rings touches, Rubik’s Cube cake toppers, an awesome way to handle a ring warming. Plus, you’ll never guess how they made their first look even MORE intimate and memorable. It may have been a sweltering June day, but these two are cool as cucumbers.