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Real Weddings: Global

Although we’re based in the United States, we feature weddings from around the world — especially the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.net/submissions.

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A cyclone didn’t stop Nic & Dan’s Star Wars beach wedding from happening

A cyclone may have hit this wedding right before the wedding, slowing down vendors, keeping guests from arriving, and generally mucking things up. But this pair rallied together to get.shit.done. Their “From the sea to the stars” wedding was going forward with love, sand, and awesomeness.

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Rainbow meets steampunk at Jen & Clynton’s South Africa wedding

A steampunk cake with a rainbow middle totally encapsulates this wedding. Think rainbows everywhere with old clocks, feathers, copper and silverware, telephones, inkwells, and anything their imagination could invent. Borrowing from friends helped keep the budget down as did some creative thinking. Add in a few sword photos, awesomely mismatched centerpieces, and an amazing rainbow dress, and we’re all in.

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When Daleks and the Sith sabotaged a wedding: Lore & Martin’s theatrical wedding

This wedding is blowing our collective minds with its extensive ceremony plotline about Daleks and the Sith plotting to ruin the wedding, groomsmen being impaled, the bride entering with a katana, a wild battle right at the altar… this is required reading, you guys. Just wait until you see the bride’s handmade embroidered musical notes gown, too!

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Huge flowers and a surprise Smarties cake at Angela & Jean-Paul’s Aussie wedding

This backyard wedding in Sydney is the sweetest thing you’ll see today. Highlights include the GIANT flowers carried by the bride and bridesmaids (and occasionally eaten by the groom), the surprise Smarties explosion cake, and the slightly tipsy father of the groom speech.