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steampunk

We featured our first steampunk wedding back in 2007, and have been celebrating the Neo-Victorian aesthetic ever since! We’ve got everything from grooms in googles and top hats to brides in gorgeous bustled steampunk wedding dresses… if you like this look, be sure to check out our wedding corset archive, as well.

steampunk robot alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Sheyne & Glenn’s scientific Victorian steampunk octopus wedding

We already snuck a peek at this couple’s fabulous octopus cake, and now we’re getting the full scoop! We’re talking steampunk details, custom corset loveliness, and a ROBOT RING BEARER made by a certain Mythbuster pal of theirs. Just watch your eyebrows around the flamethrower…

soon honey beer bottle alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Fancy cake adorably attacked by cheerful octopodes

We’ve got a steamy, tentacle-filled wedding coming soon, and we wanted to give you a little preview in the form of their striped and rose-bedecked cake getting consumed by swirly green tentacles. Oh, and two of the sweetest little octopodes took up residence at the top to hug it out.

ocotpus tie clip alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Tentacle and octopus wedding ideas and details for beautiful briny sea weddings

Suzi and Paul share our fondness for the wriggly tentacled types that we’re celebrating this week in our mash-up theme of barns and tentacles (BARNACLE WEEK!). We scoured the tentacle archives and found steampunk octopodes, squid cakes, tentacle crowns, knitted cephalopods, and tentacle-covered accessories. Wrap your many arms around these babies…

il 570xN.322009428 2 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Warm up with these boleros and shrugs

Are you looking for a cover-up for your colder weather wedding without sacrificing style? Babies, I’ve got you covered: check out Etsy Seller Chrisst’s amazing selection of boleros, shrugs, and collars. These styles work for vintage, Steampunk, goth, rocker, or fantasy styles, and quite possibly anything in between. Any of these pieces can really add some KAPOW to your wedding outfit, and you can wear them again and again with other outfits (how about dressing up your sexytimes? Lingerie + bolero = major unf). Let’s get inspired by the pretty, shall we?