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wedding planning slump alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How did you get yourselves out of a wedding planning slump?

Why did I get so much done the first couple weeks of being engaged, and now I’m doing NOTHING? I was on a freaking roll! Guest list, hashtags, narrowing down dates… even looking at wedding dresses! We’ve been engaged for over a month, and now I’m dead in the water. Did you ever get into the doldrums of wedding planning? How did you get yourselves out?

Google Spaces wedding planning tips as seen on @offbeatbride

Mad how-to skills: Using Google Spaces for wedding planning

We love us some Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) for wedding planning. You can create spreadsheets, shareable documents, and all kinds of helpful databases for your wedding planning team to use. Google just recently launched a new service called Google Spaces which functions as a project planning tool for sharing ideas, photos, links, YouTube vids, and all kinds of documents on which to comment and share between your people. Here’s how we’d use Google Spaces for wedding planning.

baseball and weddings alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How baseball games can help you plan a wedding

Just putting it out there that season tickets to baseball games might be the best way to wedding plan — hours of doing nothing but sitting, talking, drinking, snacking, and cheering on your local sports team together, peppered with wedding brain storming. Here are all the things we came up with while watching baseball…

what happens when a wedding blogger gets engaged alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

What happens when a wedding blogger gets engaged?

Big fucking news, y’all: I’m fucking engaged! So what happens when a wedding blogger gets engaged? Let’s find out together with Wedding Planning Wednesdays. We thought, however, that y’all might like to get down on the wedding planning with me! So every(-ish) Wednesday I’ll be posting about what I’m thinking about, bumping up against, and searching for this week. That way, those of you on the same path can commiserate and brainstorm with me, and those of you who have been there/done that can drop some knowledge.