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Wedding officiant fashion as seen on @offbeatbride

Wedding officiant fashion for on-point ceremony style

Officiants have a big ol’ job to do at your wedding. They have to preside, be all clever AND bring the tears, and most of all… they must.be.fashionable. Okay, maybe it’s more about the couple, but if you’re the officiant reading this, I’d wager you’re wondering what the hell to wear. With offbeat weddings, you never know what you’re going to get. Let’s go on a retrospective to all kinds of offbeat weddings where the officiant was totally on point.

Lisa Frank colorful wedding as seen on @offbeatbride

Lisa Frank would approve of this super fun colorful wedding

Jenn and David’s first date had video games at an arcade and their second date was Disneyland. They embody “grown, but never grown up” and wanted their Bard Mansion wedding in California to be as colorful and full of childlike wonder as they are. Jenn has rocked purple hair for almost a decade, develops color cosmetics for a living, and still rocks Lisa Frank school supplies on the reg. Was this wedding colorful? Oh hell yes it was. Lisa Frank, The Lorax, and rainbows themselves have nothing on this super fun colorful wedding.

my best friend wont be in my wedding

5 things to do when your best friend said no to being in the wedding

About three days after getting engaged, I texted my best friend to quickly confirm that he would, indeed, be in my wedding party. His response was… not what I was expecting. Here’s how I dealt with it.

In a sadness tailspin, I reached out to my future husband, who was in the midst of a two hour work meeting. So I reached out to my ex-husband (who knows our relationship the best of anyone) and he had some awesome advice for anyone who has a best friend that said no to being in your wedding party…

Ring toss glass clinking wedding game as seen on @offbeatbride #wedding #glassclinking

A Bozo Buckets or ring toss wedding game: your new glass-clinking alternative idea

In case you’ve never heard of it (it’s totally regional), the tradition of guests tapping their glassware and making the couple kiss is A Thing. And when you’re trying to eat your high-priced dinner, kissing every two seconds can get tiresome. So we rounded up some ways to save the glassware and make it a challenge to make you to kiss at the reception. Andrea’s idea was to use the concept of Bozo Buckets/ring toss. Toss ping pong balls into numbered buckets and set up the rules for each.