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The offbeat bride: Missy, hotel concierge Her offbeat partner: John, musician Location & date of wedding: My Backyard, 7pm, Portland, OR — July 26th, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Well, we scraped the formal wedding idea after I broke my ankle, and money was tight. [Let's hear it for healthcare in America! Boo. -AMS] Instead of renting out a venue, we decided to have it in our backyard, and suddenly a huge weight was lifted off our shoulders

ELIZABETH GREIG and Jason Extein’s first date, in December 2006, occurred the night before she left for what until then had been her chief passion: improving medical care in Haiti. So Mr. Extein, 28, was not at all surprised in January when Ms

You might recognize these two from when when we showed off their sexy, gothy wedding porn a few months ago. Well here's the whole story on this vegan winery wedding. The offbeat bride: Alyssa, Crafty Concierge Her offbeat partner: Brian, photographer Location & date of wedding: Alexander Valley Hall, Geyserville, CA — October 3, 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: Brian is a photographer specializing in zombie/horror/faux crime scene photography for which I do all of the make-up and effects, so it was assumed from the beginning that any wedding we would have was just going to be offbeat by nature.

Recently a friend of mine sent out a tweet asking for gift ideas for her bridesmaids in which she added ” …and don't say jewelry. ” Which got me to thinking, what are some good bridal party gifts for the ladies that aren't jewelry.

Theresa , a PhD student, vegan and rad Australian, posted this short and sweet tutorial about how she made super-kitschy “parental flowers,” little giveaways her parent's could take with on their trip back to the states after the wedding. They're just too easy AND adorable not to share. Take it away Theresa! – Offbeat Shrie We wanted to have something special to give our parents at the wedding, but we didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for flowers from a florist — especially since my parents wouldn't be able to take real flowers home with them to the US

The offbeat bride: Katia, translator, photographer, dancer Her offbeat partner: Andreas, WEB 2,0 Master, PR-Officer, music expert Location & date of wedding: Kettwig-Rathaus, Germany; ” 3/4 Zehn ” Kettwig; ” Veranda ” Odessa; the Crimea trip — 6th August 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: I am from Ukraine. My husband is German.

Academic Librarian, Copyright Specialist and OBT member ” Mollyali ” has written an impressive post on copyright issues and how they relate to your wedding photos. Read on and learn! I'm really excited by the amazing success we had negotiating with our wedding photographer around copyright, and I wanted to share what we did with OBB

I love my fiance but GOD, he's such a fucking GUY. It seems like all the wedding planning stuff ALWAYS FALLS TO ME

The Offbeat Bride: Kat, Desktop Publishing Specialist, Musician, and Semi-pro Crafter Her offbeat partner: Mike, Operations Ninja and Writer Location & date of wedding: Thorpewood , Thurmont, MD — 01/17/2010 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was very much about expressing our geeky, crazy love. When we decided on a winter wedding, we stumbled upon the idea of the “Midwinter Night’s Dream” theme, and tried very hard to make it whimsical, light-hearted, and above all fun, without being too over-the-top with the faerie or renfest theme. I’m also a crafter who loves DIYing everything, so pretty much everything we COULD make ourselves, we did