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Real Offbeat Weddings

We love featuring a truly diverse range of real weddings, from highly stylized theme weddings to elopements to simple and small weddings. Submit your wedding for consideration via offbeatwed.net/submissions.

This darkly gorgeous wedding has the black wedding dress of your dreams

This dark avant garde wedding has the black wedding dress of your dreams

This secular wedding was a mix of all things dark and gorgeous: a gothic cemetery, a bar venue with amazing food and surprisingly affordable cocktails, and fabulous dark outfits including a Wedding Dress Fantasy gown of our goth-loving dreams. Pair it with the bride’s perfectly red hair and the groom’s killer ink, and this avant garde wedding slays us.

Sea queen meets literary nerd wedding

Sea queen meets literary nerd wedding (with the founding of a new land!)

This pair’s mash-up name totally sounded like a fake European country, so they ran with it and created a whole fanfic-style backstory and theme! Add that to the sea queen look, the together-but-independent ceremony (with apt, science-y unity ceremony!), and amazing game-themed reception, and this literary nerd wedding has won us over…

An intimate Derby Day wedding (with handmade rings!)

An intimate Derby Day wedding (with handmade rings!)

Jennifer and Robert wanted a small ceremony at a favorite spot followed by a small fete with family. It was personal, intimate, and perfectly charming. Plus, we’ve got the story on how they chose their venue and how they MADE their rings! Here’s what Jennifer told us…

Les bons temps rouler at this New Orleans wedding with food trucks and a sweet first look

Les bons temps rouler at this New Orleans wedding with food trucks and a sweet first look

Tia and Steph had a New Orleans wedding in true style with natural scenery, a fab food truck, good soul music, and a laid-back vibe that lasted all day. It all started with a first look and walk along the river with their wedding party at Crescent City Park. Then it was on to their super personalized ceremony.