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How to make fabulous paper rose bouquets

My fiancé is allergic to all the pollen from essentially ALL the flowers. Therefore, standard wedding decor, typically involving floral arrangements was a challenge. I’m resourceful, crafty, and obsessed with efficiency. This lead to Operation Paper Roses. From prototype to final product, here’s the recipe for making this fabulous paper rose bouquet…

I bought a colored wedding dress and now everyone's mad! What should I do?

The big wedding dress timeline

Need to know when to start shopping for your wedding dress? When to start stocking up on nude knickers? When to schedule your fittings? When to start flippin’ out? (Hint: never!) This is your Offbeat Bride wedding dress timeline guide. Here’s a run-down of all the necessary steps to acquiring your rad wedding outfit in a lower-stress way.

Czech Republic wedding as seen on @offbeatbride

This grey dress at this winter wonderland Czech wedding is making our lives

Couples planning snow-covered winter weddings, this one is for you. Eliška and Ondra were married in an old mountian house in the Czech Republic built in the middle of 19th century. Eliška wore a flowy grey gown made of our wildest snowy goth wedding dreams, and the decor smacked of dark forest romance. Branches and black coal in jars added a cool and clean edge to the everything. All the food was homemade and heated on the fire stove, keeping things totally authentic and amazing. Let’s bask in the cold glow of this Czech wedding.

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The saddest wedding items on Etsy: 12 wedding memorial ideas to make you sniffly

Today I want to chop some onions at work and take a look at some of the saddest and most touching wedding memorial ideas I found on Etsy… including the custom silhouette candlestick shown above, which you could then light at your wedding. This entire post is maybe a little macabre, but grief is weird that way. Have your hankies at the ready.