Who is an Offbeat Bride? :)

[JJJRain-crew]

:DI am proud to admit that I will be an offbeat bride (yep I bet your all just super surprised HAHA) I am also a keen appreciator of the offbeatbride website, and I found the offbeat dress I have to have on there (I dont often get excited about dresses)!! I havent done the deed and signed my life away yet but when I eventually do people will probally forget that they are actually at a wedding.
So what are your offbeat plans or what was your unique wedding like?

[shellmabell]

I think I'm a bit of an offbeat bride :D
Our whole wedding will be held in a historic old homestead in the middle of winter and we are having a vintage themed high tea reception. I love old stuff and i am really into the 1930's era so we have already started scouring antique stores and op shops for old tea cups and saucers and platters and vases etc for our reception. I am getting a 1930's style long-sleeve silk dress made and I will have no veil, just a wavy bob with some sort of jewelled hair clip holding it back. My fiance is going to wear black trousers and a pin-striped shirt with braces but no tie. I think he will look fabulous ;-)
I am going to carry some hand-tied green crysanthemums and I will walk down the aisle without anyone but my two children beside me.
I am also a photographer so I am planning on taking some quirky retro portraits of the two of us and using them for our wedding invitations which I will design to look like vintage postcards...
I can't wait.. I'm so excited.
What are your plans?

[niks28]

I love offbeat bride! I am not however, I just bought my big white strapless expensive dress today, the one I said I'd never wear.

I'm not excited about it though, it was more I need to get a dress and DD is grumpy so this is the best.... I really hope I grow to love it coz it is pretty cool.

Shellmabell- yours sounds awesome too!

Do you read any wedding blogs?

[shellmabell]

Actually I do look at some blogs- Polka Dot bride, Wedding Inspirasi (for all those couture designer dresses that no one could ever afford or even wear because they are too over the top), Offbeat Bride of course and Wedinator.com just because it cracks me up!
I also work as a wedding photographer so I see lots of real life weddings and steal the occasional idea here and there.
Oh and Niks28 I love your dress. I love Pronovias designs, they have some really amazing stuff. The only problem I have with wedding designers like them is their photoshoots are gorgeous but their models are so impossibly thin and beautiful it makes the dresses look so amazing, but what do they look like on real women? I would just for once like to see wedding dress designers use realistic women to model their dresses, because unlike other designer clothes which only models and actresses etc. seem to wear, wedding dresses need to appeal to women of all shapes and sizes and looks.
I find it impossible to get ideas for my wedding dress by looking at websites because although I love some of the dresses I see, there's no way of knowing if it would suit my body shape because none of those models are ever over a size 4...
Anyway.. I didn't mean for this post to turn into a body image debate, sorry Niks...
I do think your dress is gorgeous :-)

[MilkEyes]

Oh, I looove OBB! I am about to get married (6 weeks... eek!) and have found it especially difficult to plan a wedding and care for our little boy (nearly 10 months old). I have planned a fairly classic wedding, but it is all being held on my family's holiday farm by the lake. One of the most difficult things I found was dress shopping - why must every dress in stores be strapless?! I wanted long sleeves out of lace, and ended up getting a dressmaker. (Strapless dresses are gorgeous, I just didn't want one as it will be mid winter).

Shellmabell, your wedding plans sound beautiful - I went to a wedding a few months ago where the bride had a 40's style dress that was so cute. She had her hair up with one of those little cap-type facinators and a small birdcage veil.

As our wedding theme is a country one, and my DF is a meteorologist, I really wanted a mini weathervane for our cake topper. I have had NO luck finding one... does anyone have any ideas?

[shellmabell]

Emily Grace, have you tried e-bay and Etsy?
Surely you can get a custom made one somewhere. I see wedding toppers of all types all the time at weddings I photograph so I reckon it would be do-able.
Ring a few different cake decorators and ask them.

[scarymarygoldfish]

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[hailsntwang]

I think I was counted as an Off Beat Bride.

We got married on a roundabout (our street was a court with a roundabout in the middle so it made sense - easy, close to home, no fuss and best of all FREE!!), we then had the reception down at the local pub, with pub meals for dinner - was fantastic!!
I still remember playing Pool in my wedding dress!!!

We then continued the party back at a friends place and caught a taxi home at 4:00am. Extremely off beat lol!!

People still rave on about how our wedding was one of the best they've been to as it was so relaxed and low key:yes: