Category Archive

purple dress

3585366718 125abc56a6 m alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Abi & Travis’ Love Declaration Celebration

Remember when Ariel’s mind got bended? Well here’s the deal behind all that colory stripy goodness. The Offbeat Bride: Abi, Accounts Manager and DJ Her Offbeat Partner: Travis, Copywriter and DJ Location & date of wedding: Mount Park, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa — 11 April 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We were married in […]

3239088391 1346df4542 m alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Adair & Christiaan’s Japanese-Inspired, Summer in January Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Adair, Grad Student My Offbeat Partner: Christiaan, Grad Student Location & date of wedding: Bartlesville Community Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 01/03/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We both had very different conceptions of what our wedding should be. The groom was very keen on much of the symbolic tradition of weddings, […]

2740151728 9e5c0b48e7 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Sarah & Richard’s Pirates of the Carribean Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Sarah, hairdresser My Offbeat Partner: Richard, material handler, contractor Location & date of wedding: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, on my Parent’s farm — July 12, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: There are a few obvious reasons why my wedding would be considered “offbeat.” My dress was purple, my hair was red, he […]

3344694479 345658bfba alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Venetian wedding

I am hoping to have many more stories to share from this totally magic semi-goth/historicalish wedding that happened in Venice, Italy. For now, I give you these amazing photos… I know it’s a great wedding if I’m looking at the couple standing at the altar and thinking to myself, “Can I be the meat in […]

3243520331 af4ab4765e m alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Jenn & Brandon’s Matrimonial Purple Tudor Tea Party

The offbeat bride: Jenn, Youth Worker Her offbeat partner: Brandon, Musician Location & date of wedding: Illuminated Sculpture Gallery in New Orleans, LA on January 10th, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We were already legally married and decided to get “weddinged” almost exactly on our one year anniversary. Not bad to have already gotten […]

Kelly Devoto 11 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Prom dresses make daring wedding gowns

I’m all for white dresses, red dresses, blue dresses, purple dresses, but ZOMG I actually gasped out loud when I saw this picture of Kelly Devoto‘s fantastical colorful peacock-y wedding dress — which it turns out was actually designed to be a prom dress.