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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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Jessica and Matthew’s laid-back under-$1000 wedding

We decided to get married after having seen each other in person only five times (over a year and a half) and burning through countless verizon cell-to-cell minutes. We had only two months to plan the wedding, and I (the bride) was living in California while the groom and the wedding was in Connecticut. I arrived in Connecticut four days before the wedding and thankfully had family and friends who handled all the preparations while Matthew and I generally freaked out.

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Getting weddinged is what it’s called when you have a wedding after you’re already legally married

Getting weddinged, verb: The act of having a wedding after you’re already legally married.

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Kristina & Todd’s classic punk-rock wedding

Tattooed bride and bridal party, a custom ceremony performed by a self-described atheist minister, and punky music selections… Kristina and Todd present the “classic punk rock wedding.”

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Check the christmas ornament wedding bouquet at this colorful, crafty, “hip-but-won’t-scare-grandma” gathering

“I never really loved the idea of real flowers (especially for the bride’s bouquet). It just didn’t seem like an area we wanted to put a lot of money into, so I thought crazy paper flowers were the way to go. I wanted something sleeker for myself and got the bright idea to use Christmas ornaments!”