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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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Adair & Christiaan’s Japanese-Inspired, Summer in January Wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Adair, Grad Student My Offbeat Partner: Christiaan, Grad Student Location & date of wedding: Bartlesville Community Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 01/03/2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We both had very different conceptions of what our wedding should be. The groom was very keen on much of the symbolic tradition of weddings, […]

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Kendra & Blake’s Rock & Roll Revival, Post-Elopement Party

The Offbeat Bride: Kendra Bentle, Branding and Design Writer and OBTer SheHim Her Offbeat Partner: Blake Rainey, Musician Location & date of wedding: The EARL, music venue and bar, Atlanta, GA — 1/11/09 What made our wedding offbeat: Blake and I met on-stage at an Atlanta music venue called The EARL during an event aptly […]

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“When Pagans Go Traditional” wedding

Our biggest challenge was balancing our desire to have a very pagan handfasting with the need to maintain a certain family friendly normalcy…

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Elka & Peter’s Rural Wisconsin Wedding… with honey!

The Offbeat Bride: Elka, editor and writer Her Offbeat Partner: Peter, city attorney for Napa Location & Date of wedding: We had the ceremony on my family’s land, where my Aunt Kris tumbled over her pony’s head when she was galloping him in the moonlight, and where I rode horses as a child and teenager. […]