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finished chopstick sleeve place card alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How to make chopstick sleeve place cards

We made chopstick sleeves using some leftover travel-themed wrapping paper from our envelope liners. We then printed out each adult guest’s name onto extra linen card stock and ended up with functional chopstick sleeve place cards that we made like this…

PuffsFuschia medium alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Wedding invitations from vintage to modern styles from Modern Girl Invitations

YAY! More fun wedding invitations to show of from Modern Girl Invitations! We’ve gushed about them before and I can’t wait to show you five more of my favorite colorful invites ranging from their retro vintage looks to their modern wedding invitations.

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“If I were” a place card name tag

OBT member evewasinnocent is taking her mother’s creative party place card idea and putting her own spin on it for her upcoming wedding. And she’s not only giving us the whole scoop, but giving you permission to steal this idea…

Picture 4 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

12 creative wedding card boxes

Card boxes are a really good idea to have at a wedding. I had no idea these things were even… things, so at our wedding we were handed a few cards by family members and in the hustle and bustle we totally misplaced them. (Major party foul.) To make sure you don’t embarrass yourselves the way that we did, think about setting up a card box at your wedding.

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Wedding pins and buttons personalize the heck out of your wedding day

Reenie (of comic book style wedding invite fame) mentioned that she’s DIYing the boutenniers for the guys and has accented them with nerdy pins. And it struck me that pins are definitely becoming a full on offbeat trend. Here are ways to use pins as fun wedding accents.