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boho rainforest puerto rico wedding 34 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Come travel with me: Walt Whitman wedding reading (+ quotes for vows!)

If travel is important to you and your partner, let these Walt Whitman wedding vows inspire you. These vows include excerpts from the Walt Whitman poem “Song of the Open Road,” plus a reading that’s a mashup of both “Song of the Open Road” and Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”

boho rainforest puerto rico wedding 37 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Puerto Rico wedding in a rainforest with love and a 5-piece Latin band

Puerto Rico was the first trip we took together, and travel is a big part of our relationship – so it has always held a special place in our hearts. We didn’t have a wedding party so much as a party wedding: a welcome party at a beach bar, a post-wedding food truck party, and then an island trip on a catamaran a few days later! Really we just wanted our friends and family to come travel with us for a week.

Pirate wedding in Puerto Rico on @offbeatbride

Sword fights and hot booty: Don’t miss Ashley & Erik’s Caribbean pirate wedding

You guys, we know a good pirate wedding when we see one, and this one brings the house down with its Caribbean locale, amazingly detailed costumes, ACTUAL SWORD FIGHT at the ceremony, super well-crafted pirate-themed decor (including treasure chests), cardboard cut-outs, fire spinners, drunken video guest book, pirate-themed scavenger hunt, and my favorite father/daughter walk down the aisle yet.

Apple branches centerpiece Ritz Carlton San Juan 1 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Apples skewered on bare branches + purple calla lilies = tablescape that will haunt your dreams

Remember how I went to Puerto Rico last month, and toured a bunch of amazing wedding and honeymoon venues? Well, one of the spots we toured was the Ritz-Carlton San Juan, where they did it UP for a dinner for all of us journalists. This amazing tablescape greeted me when I walked in the dining room… yes, those are green apples skewered on bare branches, surrounded by purple calla lilies and moss balls.

I was all HOLY FUCK, OFFBEAT BRIDES ARE GOING TO DIE. You have to see more.