Mariage excentrique #2

Unity cocktails, unity wine boxes, unity candles, unity science projects, and even unity sandwiches - damn we love us some uniting! We've rounded up a few of our newest offbeat unity ceremonies for your own ceremony schemes (including Keith and Corianton's lumberjack-inspired ceremony above!). Let's see what offbeat couples have been dreaming up.

If you're new to wedding planning, there may be some terms you don't know. Or are you wondering why your engaged friend keeps talking about their STDs? Here's a list of stuff that gets mentioned a lot in the wedding industry.

We've been cleaning up our selection of Offbeat Bride merchandise, mostly t-shirts and now sports bras(!), and wanted to make sure you knew what was available to you if you want to show off your love of the site on your bod. Let's take a peek at what we've been rockin'.

without a doubt, the most popular shoe of all time ever and ever is T.U.K.'s peacock pump. It's aff-$44-able and cute, and while I don't see quite as many peacock features at weddings as I used to, small peacock details are still making weddings everywhere more beautiful… and these shoes are a great nod.

Thanks to our sponsor Unity in Glass for presenting this week's posts on Offbeat Bride. We love 'em, and think you will too... It's hard to plan a wedding while both the industry and your family and friends are telling you, "It HAS to be this way!

A lot of weddings feature amazing ways to honor those loved ones who have left us. We have a whole archive dedicated to it. Let's recap a few of our favorite (and some new) ways to memorialize your dearly departed family and friends including with memorial trees, boutonniere charms, gifting your bouquet, and even one "releasing of the goldfish."

Offbeat weddings are a recipe for pure no holds bar quirky fun. Marybeth Southard & Jason Moore filled their wedding day with delightful little treats that echo not just their interests but who they are to the core.

I feel like I'm still unpacking my bags from my trip to Las Vegas last week, where I did that presentation about offbeat weddings… and now I'm packing up again for another trip. This time, I'm heading to Los Angeles for a meet-up with offbeat vendors who are interested in being a part of the Lovesick Expo this winter.

Not infrequently, Offbeat Bride will be criticized for supposedly telling couples to ignore certain kinds of wedding etiquette advice. Or we'll catch shit for sharing weddings where folks went way off the beaten track when it comes to what you might think of as acceptable wedding etiquette.

Pennsylvania-based Alysha Yoder has some major street cred when it comes to photographing offbeat weddings. We're talking everything from Celtic handfastings to three-day Indian weddings to Buddhist weddings to Star Wars-loving board game fests. Alysha's photography background is varied: commercial, fashion, editorial, food, portrait, and of course, weddings, so she's seen it all, including all variations of fun and interesting lighting.

Thanks to our sponsor Unity in Glass for presenting this week's posts on Offbeat Bride. We love 'em, and think you will too... Newly engaged and totally clueless as to how much your wedding will cost? You're not alone. Pretty much everyone goes into wedding planning like a big ol' noob and is quickly boggled by all the hidden costs.

One of the best ways to show your uniqueness on your wedding day is in the wedding attire. Last week we showed interesting ways of pulling off the bridal separates fashion trend, and today we decided to continue on the subject of our favorite looks for the offbeat bride.

If you're looking for ways to keep kids occupied at your reception, an I-Spy scavenger hunt reception game is a great idea, right? But if you're rocking an offbeat wedding, maybe you'd rather have, say, "Converse" or "piercings" as your items to hunt instead of "something blue" or "champagne glasses."

We've got lots o' pages of boho wedding ideas, but I had to pull out some extra speshy rustic-inspired details to give your lacy, flowery dreams life. If you're looking for lace, flower crowns, flowy sleeves, and wildflowers, this bohemian chic collection is made for you.

Offbeat brides and grooms lurrvvv their canine companions. We've featured weddings with pooches as ringbearers and groomsmen, wedding invitations and programs, even cakes and table numbers. Of course, you're welcome to dig through our doggie archives (please do! You'll come back feeling awesome, promise).

In case you are new to mywedding, there is one thing that you should know...we firmly believe that every wedding celebration should be as unique as the couple starring in the festivities. Want to wear a black dress on your wedding day? Go for it. Want pie instead of cake?

You might already have heard of LA-based photographer Jessica Schilling from some wicked weddings we've already featured. Our favorite part of partnering with Jessica is that she's JUST LIKE US: a total Offbeat Bride herself. Let's learn more about Jessica, her wedding, and her photographic style that she'll apply to your future frame-worthy wedding photos.

If you're planning a winter wedding in the Northern Hempisphere, you know how hard it can be to find ideas and inspiration for your snowy winter wedding, full of candles and romance and couples wearing boots and drinking hot chocolate.

One of the wedding themes that doesn't get nearly enough attention is an offbeat wedding. An offbeat wedding is non-traditional and includes creative touches to really bring out two people's quirky personalities. Nerdy, geeky, offbeat weddings are some of our favorites because there are so many insanely creative ideas out there.

I just was wondering if someone could do a "what to wear" post for wedding guests. I saw a few posts about dress codes, but some links and ideas (like your shoe posts) would be super useful. Even though I've been to over a dozen weddings in the last 6 years I am still clueless about what to wear.

Are you looking for wedding invitations that kick uber-modern ass, but also say "Hey, we're sophisticated as hell"? Our sponsor Shine Wedding Invitations has got your back with their new collection for 2015. Let's check out their new styles while we talk about promotions, free shipping, and real quotes from real offbeat customers...

Black Friday means there are coupon codes flying all over the web, but one is extra relevant for those of you hunting for wedding shoes: Amazon's HOLIDAY25 coupon (which expires TODAY 11/28/2014). Ready for some shoes that are eligible? There are some longtime Offbeat Bride favorites styles in here -- like Fluevogs, Seychelles, and those TUK peacock shoes everyone loves.

No one turns out an incredible wedding cake like an Offbeat Bride - y'all make your cakes work, whether they're geeky, nerdy, booky, spooky, rainbow-y, or romantic...y. I went strolling through some of our most pinned wedding cakes (cough, that's Pinterest, yo, follow us if ya haven't!), and I'm just now picking my drooling jaw up off the floor.

With a fresh and enlighten view on the wedding day, Adela & Teodor Negrea married in a locale uniquely special to them both. For their offbeat wedding with a truly laid back party feel, the couple knew without question that the grounds of Banffy Castle was the perfect spot, as it is also the home to the Electric Castle Festival, a musical festival directed by the groom himself!

The Offbeat Bride Tribe (our private online community for couples actively planning their weddings) is currently down for maintenance until December 30th. While our lead developer is hard at work rebuilding the Tribe's tools and functions from scratch, we can gather together in the comments here to drown our sorrows, ask questions, and give each other advice...

We luv us some offbeat fashion, and the fellas out there cannot be left out of the equation. I've rounded up 22 truly inspiring, high-tone looks from our groom gear tag. Browse to your heart's content and witness everything from kilts to zoot suits to kimono - these are serious wedding styles for grooms, brides, and anything in between.

Guess who Ariel and I partied with at Lovesick in San Francisco? Our sponsor Dustin Cantrell! We had a blast with this guy who (we decided) is as awesome as he is talented. Which means it's a safe bet that you will have a blast with him at your wedding… no matter where it is.

Unfortunately, there is no other website like the this one. No one provides the no bullshit point of view that you get here. When someone on other wedding blogs says "Your wedding is wrong!" they aren't saying it in a "but that's totally okay, and who cares" sort of way, like you get here.

This post features offbeat affiliates, meaning that if you buy something featured, you'll be financially supporting this site's mission of bringing awesomeness to readers everywhere. Every week I round up a few of my favorite shoes, focused on some sort of theme - smaller feet! Rustic chic! Halloween weddings! Sparkles!

Oh hi there. It's me, Ariel! Your friendly publisher of Offbeat Bride. Good evening! I'm sure y'all are all snuggled onto your couches, tucked between Netflix and a loved one, second screen ing away... well, ME TOO!

Depending on your neck of the woods, you reaction to The Shoe Game could be anything from: "Oh, yeah, that game every couple plays at weddings around here" to "whoa, I've never heard of that! Tell me how to play NOW."