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Whether you’re looking for unique wedding dresses, wedding shoes, cute wedding invitations, nontraditional wedding rings, or an offbeat wedding photographer… chances are you’ll find ’em here. Start by browsing our Vendor Directory for vendors in YOUR area, and then have fun with these posts to find online wedding dressmakers, photographers, and more!

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12 offbeat affordable wedding dresses under $120

For those of you working with a smaller budget, here are 12 affordable wedding dresses under $120. No, they might not be ethically made or lined with organic silk… but sometimes you have to do what you can with the budget you’ve got.

Giant collection of colorful natural hair inspiration as seen on @offbeatbride

18 rainbow-filled reasons to rock colorful natural hair at your wedding

We’ve seen some breathtaking natural black hairstyles before (hell, we’ve got a whole archive!), but this time around we’ve collected a massive bouquet of bright and colorful natural styles to inspire your rainbow wedding look. Let’s make eyes at these stunning, candy-colored, natural-haired cuties rocking the unicorn-inspired hair color we love.

Wedding cake fails so bad they're good as seen on @offbeatbride

11 wedding cake fails so bad they’re good

What’s one love we share with the rest of the world? DIY fails. We love ’em and who can blame us since we’ve probably all failed at one Pinterest project or another and are on DIY burnout mode. We also love when we see wedding cakes that fail so hard they’ve turned a corner into being awesome anyway. Let’s celebrate cakes that just didn’t make the cut to Pinterest-hood but we’d give a big hug to anyway.

The Shining themed wedding

The Shining wedding: A subversive wedding theme for the not-so squeamish

My best friend, Mini, decided to base her wedding theme on Stanley Kubrick’s macabre and terrifying psychological horror movie, The Shining. As a graphic designer, I lent a hand designing the invitations, and helped her plan the rest of the her “The Shining” wedding theme…