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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.

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Lizbeth & Rip’s friendor-fueled dive bar wedding

With an unofficial theme of “friends helping out,” you can just imagine how much everything must have meant to this pair. Feel the lurve! Plus, they had awesome, philanthropic tamales at their favorite dive bar to end the celebration. And an interesting lesson was learned, too: sometimes trying too hard to avoid stress actually ends up being stressful in itself!

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Shkehlaht Belit & Ahe’s sustainable wholistic sacred union ceremony

Looking for inspiration for your vegan wedding? Sustainable wedding, wholistic wedding? This wedding will blow your mind. With the whole family clad in handmade tie-dyed garments, no vendors, and completely DIYed decor, ceremony space, and food, this is one of those celebrations that they can totally own.

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Violins, serenades, and sweet moments at this Florida wedding

Jo and Sarah’s bit of vintage glamour, laid-back style, epic ink, and sweet little setting set the stage for this wedding in Jacksonville, Florida. Their venue, the Mandarin Community Club, used to be the Freedom School built and founded by Harriet Beecher Stowe. As a surprise for Sarah, Jo sang “To Make You Feel My Love” for the last dance of the night.

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Ebony & Alex’s Mancunian retro sci-fi wedding

This little registry office wedding in Manchester is chock full of cute references to how the pair met (Twitter!) and their sci-fi favorites. Plus, it’s totally a testament to the bride’s DIY skills — she made her own short and vintage-inspired dress! Here’s the game: find their Thunder Cats reference, Transformers detail, her something blue, and their invitation envelope quote, and you win!