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Book Review - Offbeat Bride

I just finished reading Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides by Ariel Meadow Stallings. It is AWESOME. Here is the thing, I hate weddings. HATE THEM. Yet sometime in the near future I'll be getting married. So how does one reconcile her independent bad-ass self with the nightmare that is the Wedding Industrial Complex? Stallings interviews many "offbeat brides" and shares the details about her own non-traditional wedding to help you plan your own. This book doesn't list "how-to"s so much as give you the benefit of experience and inspire you to think outside the box. If bridal magazines are all the same old boring shit to you, then read this book! I think the best thing that she points out is that people like going to non-traditional weddings. Who wants to go to the same old church affair that you could quote from memory? Especially among folks around that age where it seems like there is a wedding to go to every couple months, a non-traditional wedding is simply more fun! I definitely recommend this book to anyone with a wedding in their future, and I especially recommend reading it *before* you immerse yourself in bridal magazines and weddingchannel.com.

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posted by Mia @ 11:00 PM