Torture-free wedding showers
Ah, the “wedding shower” — A wonderful tradition rife with feminist solidarity and celebrations of love, marriage and family bonding? …Or torture in the form of humiliating games and awkward, voyeuristic present-opening rituals?
Christina & Aaron’s bug and dinosaur-infused wedding at a sake factory
This is what happens when you combine amazing green wedding outfits, creepy crawly bugs, and dinosaurs in a sake factory.
Kimi & Paul’s Jug Band, Critter-Filled Wedding
The Offbeat Bride: Kimi, artist and designer Her Offbeat Partner: Paul, artist and museum worker Location & Date of wedding: Audubon Boathouse, Prospect Park Brooklyn — 9/12/2008 What made our wedding offbeat: I’m half-Japanese Hawaiian and half Jewish, and my now-husband is an ex-Mormon, so tradition was out the window. All we wanted was a […]
Katrina & Mikhail’s low-budget costumers’ wedding on a pirate ship
The Offbeat Bride: Katrina, Video and Event Production Specialist Her Offbeat Partner: Mikhail, Freelance Photographer Location & date of wedding: St. Louis Renaissance Faire Park, St. Louis, MO — July 19, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding cost us about $500 for about 60 people, but that’s not all! We had our fairy […]