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Wedding Planning 101

You’ve just gotten engaged and don’t know where to start. Here are some wedding planning basics to get you started in planning your alternative wedding with Offbeat Wed!

What you need to know when working with a wedding florist on @offbeatbride

6 vital things you need to know when working with a wedding florist

Offbeat couples run the gamut with their floral choices: bouquet alternatives and non-floral bouquets, DIYed flowers, paper flowers, and of course, good ol’ lucious real flower arrangements. We’ve seen them DIYed from a supermarket, arranged at a farmer’s market the day before, or designed and set up by professional florists. The latter is our focus today. If you’re going for real, from-nature flora, this is your go-to guide. Let’s talk about what you’ll need to know when working with a wedding florist and get some tips on how to make that meeting ultra productive.

Wedding makeup tips from @offbeatbride

These 14 wedding makeup tips could help you save face… literally

We’ve seen offbeat wedding makeup run the gamut from vintage-styled to barefaced to natural and glowing to masquerade masks and Halloween makeup to offbeat groom makeup. So what advice can we impart to help keep your makeup plan less stressful and more BLAMMO? Here are our favorite wedding makeup tips for Offbeat Brides.

Mermaid invitation from Concertina Press on @offbeatbride

Offset, letterpress, foil… buh? Our wedding invitation printing techniques primer

Offset, foil-stamped, letterpress, engraving… if you want awesome invitations but this is all gibberish, this is the printing techniques primer for you.

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Slushies, food trucks, and brunch: 10 delicious ways to make your wedding food fun

We recently listed out 13 ways to make your reception more fun, but the REAL way to your guests’s hearts is through their stomachs, right? Here are 10 of our favorite ways to make reception food and drink more awesome and entertaining including food trucks, slushies, candy buffets, finger foods, signature mocktails, and brunch for dinner. Let’s get our foodies hats on to bring the catering game up to eleven.