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When we want to get more thoughtful, this is the spot for our feature articles. Sometimes we talk big-picture philosophies, other times we discuss wedding trends, and every once and a while we just go ape-shit over a wedding WTF?!

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Not every wedding choice has to “mean something”

I see this attitude a lot, about weddings, where everything is “supposed to mean something.” Before we got engaged, I had this grand notion that every little choice that we made about our wedding was going to be somehow representative of us. Now I can’t imagine doing that without going crazy from the stress.

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A peek behind the scenes of an Offbeat Bride on a wedding reality show

We’ve talked about reality TV before: Why you shouldn’t watch them and what they’re getting wrong. This time we bring you sneak peak of the reality behind being an Offbeat Bride ON a reality show. Find out what happened behind the scenes when a Tribesmaid with an Atompunk theme wedding showed up.

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Should photographers shoot same-sex weddings any differently?

As some of you might know, I wear two professional hats: one as the managing editor of Offbeat Families and another as a wedding photographer. As such, it made sense that Ariel asked my opinion on Capturing Love: How to Photograph Same Sex Weddings, an NPR piece about how “different” it is to photograph same-sex weddings. Based on the title alone, I was puzzled…